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128 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 206.
of the pope. A house and garden are on the summit of
the hill, where the whole town is spread out before the beholder,
the Church of St. Peter on the one side and the Campagna
on the other.
February 2. I spent an hour and a half with Senator
Bjelke, by whom I was most courteously received .
*
February 6. The Villa Pamphili was visited by me; I
found a fine garden there, as well as paintings and statues.
I examined also the aqueduct with arches underneath. After
wards I visited the Palazzo Giustiniani, where statues and
pictures alternate. There was a gallery where the statues
stood very close together; the best were a Lucretia by Bernini,
and an ancient statue ; likewise Minerva with her ægis or
shield, which formerly stood in the Temple of Minerva ;
goat, etc. Afterwards I proceeded to the Palazzo Barberini,
where I saw many articles in silver, paintings of modern
masters ; the most important among the statues were an Adonis
by Bernini, an antique Faun, a Priapus, &c. I was in the
Vatican, in the other apartments, in [the Hall of] the In
quisition, etc., and likewise in the mosaic works.
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February 14. I was in the Vatican Library, which was
fitted up by Sixtus V. I saw there splendid paintings, beautiful
vases, large halls. All articles are kept in cases. I saw also
[the MSS. of] Virgil and Terence,§ and some ancient masks ;
likewise the splendid [ Codex of the] New Testament ;** the
actions of a general painted in miniature, and other interesting
objects. I do not believe that there are so many new as
old books there.
February 15. I left Rome and travelled through Viterbo,
St. Quirico, Siena, &c. to Florence.
February 20. I arrived in Florence.
* See foot-note at p. 118.
† The pictures are now mostly in Berlin; the sculptures partly in the
Vatican and partly in the possession of Prince Torlonia.
This statue is now in the Vatican.
§ The celebrated MS. of Virgil dates from the fifth, and that of Te
rence, the so-called Bembinus, from the fourth century after Christ.
** The famous Vatican Codex of the New Testament dates from the fifth
century.
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