FULL PAGE PLATES 5 PAUL III Frontispiece From Panvinio's "Elogia et imagines," edited by Lafreri in 1568 BONIFACE VIII READING THE BULL ANTIQUORUM FROM THE LOGGIA OF THE LATERAN . THE GRAVE OF MARTIN V BY SIMONE GHINI, IN ST. JOHN THE CONVENTIONAL VIEW OF MEDIEVAL ROME With the Vatican Obelisk, the Torre delle Milizie, the Pantheon, and the Column of Trajan in the background of Ghirlandajo's "Rape of the Sabines," now in the Colonna gallery A BATTLE NEAR THE GATES OF ROME, BY PAOLO UCCELLO With a view of the leading monuments of the city, including the Torre A VIEW OF THE PORTO LEONINO ON THE TIBER To show the place (marked +) where Santa Francesca Romana was rescued from drowning THE PLAGUE OF ALEXANDER VII, A. 1659 78 From a rare contemporary print representing the following scenes: (1) The inspection of the city gates by Prince Chigi. (2) Barge-loads of corpses from the Lazaret in the island of San Bartolomeo. (3-5) Various practices for fighting the plague in the infected districts. (6) The "field of death," near St. Paul outside the Walls THE INUNDATION OF 1900 As seen in the Piazza della Bocca della Verità 84 91 THE MONUMENTAL GROUP OF SAN LORENZO FUORI LE MURA 105 THE LOGGIA OF GIOVANNI DA UDINE IN THE VILLA MADAMA. 121 VIEW OF THE REMAINS OF THE TEMPLE OF THE SUN IN THE From the perspective plan of Rome made by Giovanni Maggi at the THE MARBLE PLAN OF ROME RECONSTRUCTED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE GARDEN OF THE PALAZZO DEI CONSERVATORI THE CEILING OF ONE OF ISABELLA'S ROOMS IN THE DUCAL . A DETAIL OF THE "SCHOOL OF ATHENS," WITH THE LIKENESS . 124 132 150 153 SAINT PETER'S . 169 As it would have appeared if Michelangelo's plan of a Greek cross had not been altered by Carlo Maderno into that of a Latin cross THE FALL OF PHAETHON INTO THE RIVER ERIDANUS . 175 From a cartoon by Michelangelo, engraved by Béatrizet THE MAUSOLEUM OF JULIUS II IN THE CHURCH OF SAN PIETRO IN VINCULIS 182 THE PORTRAIT OF VITTORIA COLONNA BY PONTORMO, IN THE 201 214 . 216 221 . 237 THE DUCAL PALACE AT FERRARA, WHERE RENÉE D' ESTE HELD THE CATHEDRAL OF FERRARA THE VESTIBULE OF THE GALLERIA DEGLI SPECCHI IN THE CO LONNA PALACE, ROME THE DONNA VELATA IN THE PITTI GALLERY Considered to be the best existing portrait of the Fornarina THE ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE FORNARINA BY SEBASTIANO A LEAF FROM RAPHAEL'S ARCHITECTURAL SKETCH-Book. Formerly in the Burlington-Devonshire collection, and now in the keeping of the R. I. B. A., Conduit Street, London. The facsimile of Raphael's handwriting in the square on the left (the words are "the gum of the Pinus cembra is good against consumption ") is taken from the marginal notes to Fabio Calvo's translation of Vitruvius, now in the Munich Library, n. 216 THE VISION OF EZEKIEL, IN THE PITTI PALACE THE HOUSE AND BANK OF BINDO ALTOVITI, ON THE TIBER, THE VILLA OF AGOSTINO CHIGI NEAR THE PORTA SETTIMIANA, 241 249 THE "NOZZE DI ALESSANDRO BY SODOMA, IN THE BEDCHAM- 291 From the engraving by Mitterpock PART OF THE TOMB OF CARDINAL ASCANIO SFORZA IN THE THE PORTRAIT OF LEO X ENGRAVED BY ANTONIO LAFRERI One of the nine Muses, painted by Lo Spagna in the Consistory Hall at 311 . 315 323 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT GREGORY XI ENTERING THE GATE OF ST. PAUL ON HIS RE 3 TURN FROM AVIGNON PINTURICCHIO'S FRESCO PAINTING IN THE CHURCH OF SAN COSI- 8 11 THE STONE LION OF THE CAPITOL BEFORE ITS RESTORATION (from an engraving by Cavalieri, 1585) 19 33 37 THE PIAZZA COLONNA IN THE TIME OF PAUL III (from a 40 THE TOWER OF THE CESARINI GARDEN, NOW TRANSFORMED THE COURT OF THE MASSIMI PALACE, REBUILT IN 1532-36 BY 47 A CAPITAL FROM A TEMPLE ON THE AVENTINE, TRANSFORMED THE COAT OF ARMS OF COUNT EVERSO DEGLI ANGUILLARA THE BELFRY OF SANTA MARIA DELL' ANIMA, THE NATIONAL THE CHURCH WHERE IMPERIA WAS BURIED (a snow effect) - DESTROYED THE SPRING OF JUTURNA, NEAR THE TEMPLE OF CASTOR AND THE GRAVE OF MARCO ALBERTONI, WHO DIED OF THE PLAGUE 56 . 61 66 75 77 83 A MEDIEVAL HOUSE LEFT STANDING OPPOSITE THE CHURCH OF 89 THE INUNDATION OF 1900, AS SEEN IN THE PIAZZA DEL 95 THE PORTRAIT OF GIULIANO DE' MEDICI, SON OF LORENZO (by THE "BELLISSIMA" GIULIA FARNESE, SISTER OF POPE PAUL 102 A CORNER OF THE PALAZZO MADAMA, SHOWING DETAILS OF THE COURT OF THE SASSI PALACE, WITH THE WORKS OF ART 127 PART OF THE MARBLE PLAN OF ROME (from a photograph by PART OF THE FRIEZE OF THE BEDCHAMBER OF PAUL III IN THE CASTLE OF SANT' ANGELO (by Perino del Vaga) PRAROLA (looking vertically). VIEW IN THE PARK OF CAPRAROLA VIEW OF THE DUCAL PALACE AT MANTUA, WITH THE BRIDGE THE HOUSE OF DOMENICO DA CAPRANICA, ONE OF THE FEW SUR- . 157 ..159 THE MOUNTAINS OF PRENESTE, WHERE MICHELANGELO IS THE BELVEDERE OF INNOCENT VIII (from a sketch by Martin THE BUST OF BARTOLOMEO BARONINO IN THE PALAZZO DE' 161 167 173 DETAIL OF THE GIUDIZIO OF PIETRO CAVALLINI IN SANTA CECILIA 179 MICHELANGELO'S BEST KNOWN PORTRAIT (from an engraving by Antonio Lafreri) THE VESTIBULE OF MICHELANGELO'S HOUSE AT THE 186 VIEW OF BUST OF MICHELANGELO, BY DANIELE DA VOLTERRA . 189 192 193 VIEW OF 197 THE LOGGIA OF THE POPE'S PALACE AT VITERBO, WHERE CAR- A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE PALACE AND PRISONS OF THE IN- CARDINAL POLE. . 209 . 211 THE STATUE OF GIORDANO BRUNO IN THE CAMPO DE' FIORI. 213 THE SACRISTY OF THE CHURCH OF SAN DOMENICO MAGGIORE, THE WINDOW OF THE SO-CALLED HOUSE OF THE FORNARINA, THE RECUMBENT FIGURE OF A RIVER GOD, MODELLED BY MI- THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA, A PANEL BY LORENZETTO, IN THE |