Journey to Turin-Vicenza, and Architecture by Pal- ladio Olympic Theatre-Verona-Ancient Amphi- theatre-History of City-Monuments-Shakspeare -Romeo and Juliet-Tomb and Sarcophagus of the latter-Lago Di Garda, or Benacus-Sirmione- Turin generally-Pictures in the Palace-Antiqui- ties of Museum-Table of Isis-Santissimo Sudario, and Chapel-Churches, and La Superga-History- Royal Mausoleum-Monte Viso, and the Po-Suza -Mont Cenis-Convent-Hannibal-Gallery in the Rock-Pont Beauvoisin and Custom House-Lyons -Foundation-Humourous Allusion to by Juvenal- ERRATA. Page 31, line 14, for Marius read Marcus. 35, 88, 4, dele are. 16, insert then at the beginning. 116, last line, for eruion read eruption. 146, line 18, for shook read shock. 164, 11, for Guilio read Giulio. 164, 19, for Danæ read Danae. 4, for Capra read Capreæ. MEMENTOES, &c. &c. CHAPTER XXIV. VATICAN-SCALA REGIA-SCULPTURES-IL TORSO-APOLLO BELVEDERE-CANOVA-THE LAOCOON-SALA DEGL' ANIMALI-ANTIQUE CHARIOT, AND CHARIOTEER, &c.-SALA DEI CANDELABRI, AND SUMMARY OF THE SCULPTURES, MOSAICS, INSCRIPTIONS, &c. &c. &c. IN THE VARIOUS OTHER GALLERIES-LE LOGGIE DI RAFAELLO, AND HIS GRAND PICTURES TAPESTRY-CAPELLA SISTINA, AND MICHAEL ANGELO'S LAST JUDGMENT-LIBRARY OF THE VATICAN, AND RARITIES-RAPHAEL'S TRANSFIGURATION-DOMENICHINO'S ST. JEROME OTHER PICTURES. THE Vatican Palace adjoins St. Peter's. The treasures of art in every department contained here are so exhaustless, and so invaluable, that as I ranged, lost in admiration, smitten with delight, through its sumptuous, endless, galleries, a train of ideas was lit up, connected with the past and present glories of Rome, and I thought to myself that, were I compelled to exchange my birth-right, the proud boast of being born an Englishman, I would be a Roman. Of the extent of this palace the best proof is to state that the number of rooms it is affirmed to ૭ 2 Sculptures in the contain are 11,000; and, if the subterranean be included, 13,000 is the vast amount. Of the galleries of art some are subdivided into smaller rooms sweeping around a large circular court; others again follow one rectilinear direction, of which the perspective seems almost aerial, diminishing to a point. The modern arrangement of the rooms seems to emulate in taste, and grandeur, the antique treasures they contain; the Gods seem once more lodged in temples worthy of their divinity; and if " Mighty Mars"—" Creator Venus"-" Genial Power of Love"-and if "the Thunderer" the Imperial God Who shakes Heav'n's axle with his awful nod. Dryden. have not each to themselves a splendid temple, and votive rites, as erst, yet here are they assembled in halls, and palaces, glorious as those when they sat for solemn council in high Olympus's starry bowers, there to inhale the fragrant incense, and deepest vows of suppliant mortals, or to Sip ambrosial cates with nectar rosy red.” One of the staircases leading to a principal suite of rooms, and which, by way of eminence, is denominated La Scala Regia, is asserted to be the finest staircase in the world. It springs from the equestrian statue of Constantine, and is formed of flights of marble steps between a double range of Ionic pilasters and columns. These galleries of the Vatican being the depo Vatican. sitary of the chefs-d'oeuvre of antique, and modern, art, here may the unbiassed critic scan the comparative merits of the two. As I do not lay claim to the learning, or the discrimination, of some professed, and very hypercritical, judges: and as I am occasionally still less convinced by the remarks they make, or by the reasons they adduce for preference, I only propose to notice the principal of the many valuables here collected which most struck me, without canvassing those technical distinctions, often so subtle as to lose all applicability, and oftener, as I think, no more than the fiction of a critic. Shall we begin with the marbles in the Museo Chiaramonti ? Ranging down one immensely long gallery, occupied by gods and goddesses, heroes and demigods, muses and emperors, poets and philosophers, sarcophagi, cinerary urns, altars, and inscriptions, sacrificial, dedicatory, or otherwise allusive, the vista is terminated by the famed Torso, sculptured by Apollonius, son of Nestor of Athens, a matchless, yet melancholy, fragment of a reposing Hercules. Other rotundos lead to an octangular court, whose several rooms are appropriated to the generally acknowledged choicest remains of sculpture. The Apollo Belvedere.-Some there may be who prefer the Venus de' Medici to the Apollo. I have not forgotten how lavishly I spoke of the |