FRASCATI.

From a Drawing by J. D. Harding.

"I have been riding my saddle-horses every day; and been to Albano, its lakes, and to the top of the Alban Mount; and to Frascati, Aricia, &c. with an &c. &c. &c. about the city, and in the city for all which-vide 'GuideBook.""

Lord Byron's Letter to Mr. Murray, No. 278.

THE "Guide-Book" says, that Frascati is a little town four leagues from Rome, and that it was anciently celebrated under the name of Tusculum; built halfway up a rather high mountain, for which reason Horace has given it the name of Supernum. Tusculum existed even before Rome. Here Tarquin retired after his

expulsion from Rome.

This ancient town refused a passage to Hannibal; and when the Romans took possession of it, they built a great number of villas. Subsequently it was possessed by the Goths; after whom came the Popes, who made it the place of their retirement. This raised the jealousy of the Romans, who attacked it in 1191, and rased it so entirely, that the inhabitants were obliged to shelter themselves in one