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Venerable English College, 363

Vernet, Claude-Joseph (1714–89), 222

Vespasian, Emperor (A.D. 9–79), 44, 51

Vespignani, Virginio (1802–82), 327, 333

Vestal Virgins: Elagabalus violates, 61; House of, 11, 316; Numa Pompilius and, 5; Pontifex Maximus and, 11; seating in Colosseum, 45; unchastity, 15

Vettori, Francesco, 161–2

Vie : Via Alexandria (Borgo Nuovo), 137; (Appian Way), 22, 64, 122, 230; Ardeatina, 302; Arenula, 212; Aurelia Antica, 260; del Banco di S. Spirito, 141; delle Botteghe Oscure, 143; dei Cappellari, 212; delle Carrozze, 212; Cernaia, 181; dei Chiavari, 212; Condotti, 173, 222; della Conziliazione, 290, 369; dei Coronari, 128, 212; Flaminia, 79, 88, 152, 232; dei Fori Imperiali, 290, 369; Giulia, 143, 167; Gregorina, 222; Lata, 125, 152; dei Leutari, 172; Magistralis, 143; di Marforio, 165; Nazionale, 280; Nomentana, 289; Nova, 54; Panisperna, 343; Papalis, 128; dei Pellegrini, 128; IV Novembre, 52; Rasella, 287, 302; Ripetta, 151; Sacra ( see under separate entry ); Salaria, 8, 298; S. Celso, 143; S. Chiara, 111; Sistina, 173, 222; Trionfale, 152; Veneto, 303; delle Vite 274

Via Sacra, 29, 318; Arch of Titus, 51; booty carried down, 16; new pagan statues, 70; prostitutes, 58; SS. Cosma e Damiano, 76; width, 54

Vicolo dello Sdrucciolo, 231

Victor Emmanuel II, King (1820–78), 271–2

Victor Emmanuel III, King (1869–1947), 276, 293, 297–8, 306

Vida, Marco Girolamo ( c . 1489–1566), 151

Vien, Joseph-Marie, Comte (1761–1848), 270

Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da (1507–73), 175, 321, 353, 354

Villas: Villa Albani, 221, 229, 281; Altieri, 281, 369; Borghese ( see under separate entry ); Caelimontana ( see Mattei); Corsini, 260, 262, 366; Doria Pamphilj, 260, 366; Farnesina, 156, 351; Giulia, 172, 353; Giustianini-Massimo, 281: Ludovisi, 213, 281, 367; Madama, 152, 160, 161, 280, 350; Mattei, 94, 341; Medici, 362; Medici del Vascello, 263, 366; Mellini, 350; Montalto, 281; Negroni, 274, 367; Pamphilj, 260, 262; Sovoia (now Villa Ada), 295, 370; Savorelli, 267; Spada, 267; Torlonia, 221, 289, 297–8, 363; Torlonia (Via Nomentana), 369; Wolkonsky, 367

Villa Borghese, 281, 356– 7; Canova's work in, 270; Evelyn at, 183; owners of, 351; trees felled, 258

Villani, Giovanni ( c . 1275–1348), 105

Viminal, the, 6, 315

Virgil, (70–19 B.C.), 34

Vitalian, Pope and Saint (r. 657–72), 78

Vitelleschi, Giovanni, 123

Vitellius, Emperor (15–69), 44

Volterra, Alessandro, 334

Volterra, Francesco da, 368

Wagner, Richard (1813–83), 222

water supply: aqueducts, 70, 81; in time of Trajan, 54; Paul V, 181; Sixtus V and, 173; under Hadrian I, 81

Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900), 278

Wilkes, John (1725–97), 219, 221

Willison, George (1741–97), 219

Wilmot, Catherine, 226

Winchester, Henry Beaufort, Bishop of ( c . 1374–1447), 93

Winckelmann, Johann (1717–68), 221–2

women: attraction of eighteenth-century Roman, 219; Juvenal on, 56–7; and the law, 56; toilet and dress of Senatorial class, 56

Worms, Concordat of (1122), 90

Wotton, Sir Henry (1568–1639), 224

Ximines, Ettore (1855–1926), 368

Zuccari (Zuccaro), Federico ( c . 1540–1609), 334, 363

Zuccari (Zuccaro), Taddeo (1529–66), 334