Recently published by the same Author. A HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY AND SACRED ART IN ITALY, A.D. 900-1400 IN ITALY, 900-1500 IN ROME. (Vol. I. 78 6d-Vol. II. 108 6d) Two vols. crown 8vo. 188. A HISTORY OF ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY AND SACRED ART IN ITALY. Crown 8vo. cloth, 78 6d. WILLIAMS AND NORGATE, LONDON AND EDINBURGH. HISTORIC AND MONUMENTAL ROME. A HANDBOOK FOR THE STUDENTS OF CLASSICAL 14, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON; 1874. 221. PREFACE. HAVING been urged by friends and acquaintances to prepare a second edition of a work in two small volumes: The Story of Monuments in Rome and its Environs (Florence, 1865), I have, seeing how much the aspects of the subject have changed and its field become enlarged within late years, not only amplified but entirely re-written my former work-and have incorporated in these pages, with more or less alteration, several papers read before the British and American Archæological Society in Rome. The ground of Christian antiquities in and near that city is one I have gone over, with fuller treatment than is here attempted, in another volume: "Ancient Christianity and Sacred Art in Italy." Having quitted Rome in the Summer of 1873, and not returned thither since, I refer in these pages to the state of things there existent up to that time, alluding to Monasteries and Convents, where I have occasion to mention ruins on their premises, as though the cloisters were still inhabited by their former inmates. The law for suppressing such institutions had been enacted by the Italian Parliament, but not carried out, before the end of the month (June, 1873) in which I last saw the "Eternal City" after residing there for many years. C. I. H. |