THE CAPITOL IN THE XVIth CENTURY

From Kock's Operum Antiqq. Romanor. Reliquiae

1562

"...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; the Camillus, which was then called, I know not why, the 'Zingara' or Gypsy; a marble group of a lion devouring a horse, discovered in the bed of the river Almo; the cinerary urn of Agrippina the elder, wife of Germanicus and mother of Caligula, which urn had been transformed in the Middle Ages into a standard measure for grain, 'rubiatella di grano'..."

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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