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| Charles Townley (collector) Terracotta Campana relief of Mounted Warrior battling Amazon ca. 1768-1805 drawing British Museum |
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| Charles Townley (collector) Antique Bust of Clytie ca. 1768-1805 drawing British Museum |
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| Charles Townley (collector) Sculpture group of Nymph and Satyr ca. 1768-1805 drawing British Museum |
Sestina: Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni
To the dim light and the large circle of shade
I have clomb, and to the whitening of the hills,
There where we see no color in the grass.
Natheless my longing loses not its green,
It has so taken root in the hard stone
Which talks and hears as though it were a lady.
Utterly frozen is this youthful lady,
Even as the snow that lies within the shade;
For she is no more moved than is the stone
By the sweet season which makes warm the hills
And alters them afresh from white to green
Covering their sides again with flowers and grass.
When on her hair she sets a crown of grass
The thought has no more room for other lady,
Because she weaves the yellow with the green
So well that Love sits down there in the shade –
Love who has shut me in among low hills
Faster than between walls of granite-stone.
She is more bright than is a precious stone;
The wound she gives may not be healed with grass:
I therefore have fled far over plains and hills
For refuge from so dangerous a lady;
But from her sunshine nothing can give shade –
Not any hill, nor wall, nor summer-green.
A while ago, I saw her dressed in green –
So fair, she might have wakened in a stone
This love which I do feel even for her shade;
And therefore, as one woos a graceful lady,
I wooed her in a field that was all grass
Girdled about with very lofty hills.
Yet shall the streams turn back and climb the hills
Before Love's flame in this damp wood and green
Burn, as it burns within a youthful lady,
For my sake, who would sleep away in stone
My life, or feed like beasts upon the grass,
Only to see her garments cast a shade.
How dark soever the hills throw out their shade,
Under her summer-green the beautiful lady
Covers it, like a stone covered in grass.
– Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
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| Charles Townley (collector) Discophorus statue in Sala della Biga at the Vatican ca. 1768-1805 drawing British Museum |
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| Felice Giani Angel ca. 1800 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Centaur Chiron teaching young Achilles to hunt with a bow ca. 1805 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Apollo killing Python ca. 1796-98 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Design for column-capital with figures 1820 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Design for Columns honoring Italian Authors - Ariosto, Goldoni, Dante, Alfieri before 1823 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Five Women at a Fountain ca. 1810-23 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Apollo driving the Chariot of the Sun - design for Sala di Apollo e Diana, Palazzo Bianchetti, Bologna drawing ca. 1810-23 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Felice Giani Temple of Fame (based on the Pantheon in Rome) - Design for Stage-curtain ca. 1815 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Giuseppe Barberi Architectural perspective study for ceiling decoration before 1809 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Giuseppe Barberi Four imaginary Palace interiors before 1809 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |