CHAPTER IX.

Arrival in Rome--Hotel de la Ville--The Corso--The Strangers' Quarter--Roman Guides--View from the Capitol--"How are the mighty fallen!"--The sculpture-gallery of the Capitol--The Dying Gladiator --The Venus--Hawthorne's Marble Faun--Bambino Santissimo--The Mamertine Prison--The Forum--Palaces--The Coliseum--Longfellow's "Michael Angelo" 92