The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-06-17

wearied of that gorgeous panorama.
witnessed it in the early morning before
| the glowing sun crept up from behind
the eastern hlllsides, VIXEN the morning
mists seemed like huge drift of snDW
| mantling the city, and as the rays of
the great orb of day dissipated the mist,
it evaporated so singularly that the
heights of the Janiculum seemed to
float in the very skies, and the gilded
cross ON the dome of ST. Peters shoae
in the heavens like the true cross itself.
The buildings of st. Peters and the Vat
lean were hidden in the mists, and
Rome itself seemed entirely obliteratad.
Gradually the fog disappeared and the
whole city ,shoAe with it's wonted splen-
dor like very rainbow.
At high noon, with the sun at the
zenith in cloudless sky, the picture
was brilliant one; at sunset, as the
sun westerned fast, the light aai shad-
ow was something which no artist could
paint, and at night under the pale light
of the moon, the effect was magical
and ghosts OF ancient Roman days ever
fitted about, restlessly, guilty., never
to be comforted. We were two months
in Rome, and never a. cloud or drop of
rain, it was an endless panorama Of
blue sky and an atmosphere as clear as
ether. No wonder the hearts of count
less visitors to the Eternal city turn
thitherward agalp with a longing desire
to revisit that most attractive city III
the world
Let us take stroll, turn to the left as
we leave our house, and as we look up
-, Il hab
of the most interesting streets in Rome.
This street was laid out by and namel
for Pope Sixtus V. in 1880.
1t commences a few rods only from
our house in the Piazza della Trlnita at
the Egyptian obelisk, which once stood
near by in the gardens of Sallust; this
was carved more than two thousand
years ago in imitation of the obelislS in
the Piazza del Popolo; the Via Sistina
extends right away to the great obalisk
in front Of the basilica of ST Marta
Maggiore; you then pass right through
the church and enter the Piazza with
fine fluted~marble column which was
brought from the basilica Of Constan-
tine, (thts column is forty-six feet high
and sixteen feet in circumference
thence the street with a changed name
extends far away to the largest obelisk
in the world, standing at the side of the
historic basilica of st. John Lateran
This obelisk is one hundred and four
feet high, and weighs over six hundred
tons; the monolith was erected at
Thebes by Tothmes nearly two thou
sand years before Christ. Some years
ago / saw the place where 1t formerly
stood right in front of a grand Pylcn.
Next to our house in the Via Sistina is
an old Medicean building on the corner
of Via Gregoriana In this pretty house
once lived the celebrated painter Claude
Lorraine, and little beyond, for many
years, Maria Casimira, queen ot Po
land, resided, and in this same street
lived Rossini In front of our house
and right before our bedroom windows
was the tall yellow tower of the Villa
Malta, where a little over one hundred
years since lived the famous lmposter,
there he praetised his sor-
3eries, protesting to enlarge precious
stones, making silly old women intO
pretty young maidens, and turning
common water into the rarest wine
This villa with it's tower of yellow stone
against blue sky surrounded with
grand old HeXes, was the first object to
greet my eyes every morning as / threw
open the window shutters. The villa is
now occupied by a wealthy Russian. |
When we visit Castle Angelo we will |
AXE a peep into a, cell where Cagliostro |
vas confined, a gruesome place 1t is, too. |
II we desire to follow the Via Sistina |
beyond the Piazza Trinita dd Monte we |
y, In ~,
ties; this is one of the popular after |
loon resorts of all classes Of Rome; the |
BAND plays there daily and the crowds |
If priests who are to be seen there by |
hundreds in black, scarlet and purple |
'obes standing by the green ilexes form
With the obelisk in the background a |
picture which always charms, and the
Jew Of Rome from this point Is beauti-
I'll beyond any description. The ODE |
isk is the one which the Emperor Ha-
lrian erected in Egypt in memory of |
Antimous. The Pincio is one Of the his
ORIG lions" of Rome here it was that
he beautiful but Infamous Messalina, 1
he wife Of the Emperor Claudius, in the
ear 80 celebrated her shameful orgies,
he records of which makes one shud-
er even at our own distant period. |
low little did she realize that her
anne would for all time be a synonym |
or all that is corrupt and utterly bad.
AS we leave the Piazza Trinita di
Ionti on our way towards the Plncio
re pass directly by the Villa Medici |
wned in 1900 by Cardinal Medici. 1t is
ow the French Academy of Art 1T is
beautiful place and the gardens are
lost delightful with lovely views Let
S now descend the broad marble stairs
nown for nearly two centuries as the
Gala Spagua-the well known Span
III steps, these are in double flights,
| sets of twelve steps, with marble <
latforms twenty feet wide, where '
cary ones can rest; the width Of the s
air case is one hundred and fifty feet 1
nd there are one hundred and thirty !
We steps. Those of my readers who /
ave not recently visited Rome may be +
to learn that there is now a :
ne Otis elevator which saves tourists :
Judging UP and down these endless r
airs. For many years the SCALA !
oagua" has been the resort of many !
odels for artists it rs a pretty sight to
% these models as they lounge here in ;
eir picturesque costumes. Many
eautiful Roman maidens who could
1T Trilby to the blush can be seen
ere of perfect face and form AS we
.scend and pass beneath the shade of !