Subject
In a passage from Pictures from Italy (1846), Charles Dickens (1812-1870) describes the ruined landscape of the Appian Way: the Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella, the Roman countryside, the aqueducts, temples and tombs lying in states of decay and desolation.
Placement
Harvard University Library
Credits
Google Books, Harvard University Library
References
Works of Charles Dickens. Pictures from Italy. American notes. Two volumes in one, New York 1868.
