The Wolf in the Fifteenth Century

From the Mirabilia Urbis Romae

Rome, 1499

"...the Lateran museum contained the celebrated Wolf, which is wrongly asserted to have been found in the seventeenth century near the church of S. Teodoro...all these bronzes were removed to the Capitol from the Lateran by Sixtus IV...The museum (Capitoline), solemnly inaugurated on December 14, 1471, was the very first thrown open to the public after the fall of the Empire. It contained the boy extracting a thorn from his foot; the Hercules of gilt bronze discovered in the Forum Boarium, all the bronzes of the Lateran..."

Ancient Rome
in the light of recent excavations

Author: Rodolfo Lanciani
Editor:Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York
Published: 1890


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