Note 251 — CHAP. VII.

The catalogue of reliques of Roman architecture, which Poggio has inserted in the interesting pröemium to his dialogue De varietate Fortunæ, evinces the diligence and care with which he had surveyed the ruins of ancient Rome. This catalogue did not escape the extensive researches of Gibbon, who has introduced it into the 71st chapter of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.