Monumento Sepolcrale di Giovanni battista de Cavalieri nella Chiesa dell' Ara-Corli

Monumento Sepolcrale di Giovanni battista de Cavalieri nella Chiesa dell' Ara-Corli

Tomb of Giovanni Battista de’Cavalieri in the church of Ara-Coeli

Giovanni Battista Cavalieri, a Roman patrician, young age while growing up in the virtues, honors, riches, it was from her that does not look neither provided nor to age, and revolves around his scythe inexorably caught forever in many sweet hopes. Sure that a painful feeling of pity filling my heart gazing into the monument of this unfortunate young man, but I see it when I surmounted by a cross, and I think the sweetness of the eternal future homeland, which will be much more intense, as much as resigned and generous was the abandonment of 'labile and passengers suffering of this world, I envy rather than pity the fate of the extinct. So the advantage that you have in gazing at the Christian sepulchers, which, if nothing else, there (avvezzano) to look with an eye of indifference and scorn broke the brief joys of this miserable earth.
Forgive me this digression before the tomb of a young husband and son loved so dearly. She was the mother Lucrezia Massimi who put this memory, and that you keep with expressions (all'estinto) son speaks in the epigraph. The decorative part of the monument Remember her condition of the deceased, then the two genes act to extinguish the torches mourn the untimely death of the young to the sides of the torso that recalls his effigy. The two pillars are decorated arms, flowers, bows, (quadrella), torches and musical instruments; frieze of flowers and crests, and the base swags and other arms of the family. The all conducted with great care and kindness set up a very pleasant to look at.
The tomb is placed in the Chapel of 'Sir Knights who is the latest in the left hand. It was made by walling Tommasso Orsini in honor of St. Gregory the Great, and Pauline Maffei in the seventeenth century build again the altar and adorned with fine marble.

Drawn by Francesco M. Tosi

Presso l'Editore Proprietario

15th and 16th Century Sculpture

Unknown Donor

Geneseo Foundation

Volumes 1, 2, 4, and 5

20 x 16

Italian

Print

Italian Monuments in Rome created during the 15th and 16th Century

Prints were made circa 1835 to 1860