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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 Excerpt:...driving out their rivals; and held the Coliseum up to the year 1312, when they were compelled to yield it to the emperor Henry VII. In the year I332 it was the property of the Senate and Roman people.-This is the date of the bull-feast of which Ludovico Monaldesco has left an account' transcribed, ' " Annali di Ludovico Monaldesco. ap. Script. Rer. Ital. tom. xii. p. 529, 542. A modester memorialist was never met with. This is all he says of himself: " I, Lewis of Bonconte Monaldesco, was born in Orvietto, and was brought up in the city of Rome where I lived. I was born in the year 1327 in the month of June, at the coming of the emperor Lewis; and now I will relate all the story of my times, for I lived in the world a hundred and fifteen years without any sickness except at my birth and death, andl died of old into the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The contrivance of such an exhibition has given rise to a persuasion that the amphitheatre was then entire; but the adaptation of a range of benches round the area would not be diflicult even now; and indeed it will be observed, it was resolved to renew the bull-fights even at the end of the seventeenth century. 'It is generally agreed that the porticoes on the south side were the first to give way: and those who assign the earliest date to the destruction of the exterior range of arcades in this quarter and towards the Arch of Constantine, do not descend lower than the famous earthquake in 1349. It is certain that in the year 1381 a third part of the building and a jurisdiction over the whole was granted by the, Senate and Roman _people to the religious so ciety of Sancta Sanctorum, who probably formed their hospital in the higher arches blocked up by the Frangipani, of whos...