The Marvels of Rome
Mirabilia Urbis Romæ

PART I
    1. The Foundation of Rome and Her Chief Monuments
    2. The Foundation of Rome
    3. The Town Wall
    4. The Gates
    5. The Triumphal Arches
    6. The Hills
    7. The Baths
    8. The Palaces
    9. The Theaters
    10. The Bridges
    11. The Pillars of Antoninus and Trajan
    12. Ancient Images of Rome
    13. The Cemeteries
    14. The Places of Martyrdom 
PART II
    1. Famous Places and Images in Rome
    2. The Vision of Octavian and the Sibyl’s Answer
    3. The Dioscuri
    4. Constantine’s Horse
    5. The Pantheon
    6. The Passions of Saints Abdon and Sennen, Sixtus and Laurence
    7. Octavian and the Church of San Pietro in Vincoli
    8. The Colosseum
    9. Constantine’s Three Great Churches of Rome 
PART III
    1. A Perambulation of the City
    2. The Vatican and the Needle
    3. The Basin and the Golden Pine Cone in Saint Peter’s Paradise
    4. The Sepulcher of Romulus and the Terebinth of Nero
    5. Castel Sant’ Angelo
    6. The Mausoleum of Augustus
    7. Between the Mausoleum of Augustus and the Capitoline
    8. The Capitoline
    9. The Palace and Forum of Trajan
    10. Near the Mamertine Prison and the Church of San Sergio
    11. The Forum
    12. The Palatine
    13. The Circus Maximus
    14. The Caelian Hill to Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
    15. The Eastern Quarter of the City
    16. Near the Tiber
    17. Trastevere
 
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