"Faunus" Quotes from Famous Books
... styled them weeks, or months, of his visits to the different parts of the city, (Diarium Italicum, c. 8—20, p. 104—301.) That learned Benedictine reviews the topographers of ancient Rome; the first efforts of Blondus, Fulvius, Martianus, and Faunus, the superior labors of Pyrrhus Ligorius, had his learning been equal to his labors; the writings of Onuphrius Panvinius, qui omnes obscuravit, and the recent but imperfect books of Donatus and Nardini. Yet Montfaucon ... — The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon |