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~On May 12, 1885, Prince Marcantonio Borghese ordered the gates of the park of his villa at Rome to be closed to the public, which had been accustomed to ride or walk freely in the grounds.Among the wealth of documentation regarding the nineteenth-century...

The pair of ancient statues long called the Horse-tamers, as well as the Dioscuri, gave the name Monte Cavallo to the Quirinal Hill during the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Fig. 116). In the mid fifteenth century, when the study of Roman antiquity and topography began, Flavio Biondo misidentified Monte Cavallo as the ancient Esqui-line Hill, with the consequence that...