New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-07
Net~9lork DAILY Gribmx
FROM ROME.
II The N. Y. Tribune.

ROME, July9 1857.
I suppose you would relish revolution hero ia.
mensely, but is not my fault that tits quiet Off,
risiDgs of our neighbors at Florence, Genoa Leg.
horn, and the liberation Of the prisoners at Gssk,
the native journals will give you some account
But il difficult to obtain the exact truth in regard
to these matters, except from psrtcipstorl sad
these are ehy to speak with any but sworn friends.
Tery rise ones, Who gormandize general principles,
croak that these movements are rery iyadieisxs.
But when limb entirely diseased loses all ac6oa
and sense of psin then We think its state most dan
gerous. As long as Italy groans, convulses, strus-
giles, cutters, maturates heals and breaks out again.
there is life somewhere. She is our old grand.
mother, and let US not insult her by lack Of sym.
PATTY. She kept the light Of liberty burning dur
ing the dark ages, and at the close Of the fifteenth
century bore Columbus to hunt us ont on the uu-
known seas and thither to bear the pickering fame
to save it. Genoa, Florence and Venice sent Us
Columbus, Cabot, and Vespucius, and yet Of the
new world they found, it is curious fact in Provi
dence that not one inch awaited to the Italians.
Papa, as the f,ithful call him, still at Bologna,
where there are plenty of Austrisns and yet tia
said his voyage ia one of ameloration. And Just
him here. Yesterday we went to the Vatican to soe
the pictures in their new rooms; they have been
moved up another story with more space and Light
and all put on hinges, in some wise they can b
seen, which before was quite impossible to msny.
Some of the larger ones still lack distance
whence to be regarded, that having been sacrificed
to light. Yet now you can see the st. Sebastian,
their only Titan, which before was almost lost.
The TRANSPORTATION and St. Jerome still hang oppo.
SITE but the stronger light makes moro apparent tho
formers blsck reservations; these two and Rsphsds
Madonna di FOlignO alone occupy one OF the lsrss
halls. The walls are newly covered with deep
crimson paper of felt quality, initiating velvet
the pictures. The Pope has added to the collectoa
new MurillO The Return of the PrOdigal Son.
gift from the Queen Of Spain; Virgin, BY Sssso-
funata; Madonna and Child, by Francia; and u
ketch Of st. Jerome and bis Lion, by Leonardo.
But grand as are the pictures Within those with
out finer stil from the LOggias, as well as from
the wing called Belvidere the views are beautiful -
any the world can give. The air was remarkably
clear every line of the mountains, of the whole cir
cling horizon, distinctly defined; and, what amazed
us most while the sum- bereft Of every vail but tho
thin azure, blazed down on the glstenng pavement
below, and in heat and langOur had put the hills to
sleep, still beyond, faint almost as the sky, and
scarcely distinguished from it but by its white
streaked Sides rose one Of the Apennne peaks, il
mountain gulies still full of snow. Passing along
this upper LOgga of tie Vatican, we stopped before
some halfefaced maps, frescOed on the walls; those
OF the two hemspheres amused US most, not only
from the strange fishes that in the waters, and
the curious sabOats that venture not far from shore
but in the forms of the continents, and particularly
that of the Americas, where there no long Misss
sippi, but only number OF small streams emptying
into the Gulf in its place and no Cape Horn, but =
passage through the Straits of Magellan, and Terra
del FuegO stretching of to the South Pole as the
known land. The Vatican, as whole might well
be deemed the Old Worlds diary. Its art muse
ums and libraries give somewhere hints or facts Oh
all it knew, or thought, or did before us; but
of the late New World this citadel of Christendom
has few records. The old map, without the Missis-
sippi and Cape Horn, remains good illustration
still Of the knowledge, not of Rome but all Europe
of us and our policies.
cannot bat speak Of the Italian Loggia some
times, and, lest it should puzzle some one, let me
say it is gallery balcony something like our
pazzas at home, extending sometimes only in front
of a long, open window, or may be round whole
court These of the Vatican are lofty As its apart
ments and one above another supported BY pillars;
the middle or secOnd-stOry one is ornamented over
head with RaphaePs famous fresc0es, Illustrations
Of Sacred History from the Creation till the sd0rs-
ton Of the Magi. All these LOggias were formerly
open to the air on side but BOW they are glazed.
think by the present Pope, which will preserve
the IEtSCoes ITOu IiTtneE narH h"s"'os
ments though We have to blame these less probably.
than other causes for the ruin that has occurred "
many.
Aiterward we went to the Sistine Chapel, and for
the first time Jaw it without the altar decorations
ard the Papal throne that hide the pictures, ass
s;xnence before the shuts out its disc. Cere-
monies are suspended here until November, no the
Last Judgment usually partly covered by the altar
canopy, is now all exposed. But you do not sutci-
pate sny ideas Of mine on this 100 square feet
of Michael Angeles Heaven and Hell.
The modest Popes have draped many Of 10
figures; incense end candles have dimmed more; "
bad bgst hides others 10 as whole it is Obscure
a mudde of Paradise and PurgatOry-but in detail
Astounding in certain knOwledges of art. One o.
our companions said very justly thought, and very
ssfty. - II shows the great artist in every part,
:" but great artist Whose ideas of the spiritual
" world were defective;" and this recalled the ~
mark of q pioas friend last Winter, who felt and
said, The Judge looks savage az q meat-sx:
MARY, the mother, at his side, is full Of fear snd
" trembling as il begging her Son to be moro en-
"tle." These first impressions of honesthearted pco
pie are as good accounts as can be given Of it, r@
effect on the mind of one who regards it with NOS an
artistic eye. 1t is break neck operation 20 poA
the same artists works 40 years before m TOO ,V''
The Creation and Fall Of Man, the Prophe1 anu o.
bills, all interest me more than the iass 1oISWoS.
But these can be seen better in winner wneu "
floor ard seats are carpeted, ana one cav 10
lounge, and 50 comfortably look upward: ana.
give you as much variety as possible OF impros':
Of ali sorts of souls in regard TO these famous PC
lures, must add that Of tottenng Juvenile, VIZ
while restinp nv neck, / asked. Which Of 70
ra;nt;n- AZ ,.o., Iks heat Z" "Tho ono VII "