GALLIA ROMANA
Database of texts and images
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Ville | Autun (Saône-et-Loire, 71) |
Subject(s) | Funeral monument (La Gironette) |
Author(s) | Saint-Julien, Pierre de |
Apostolic prothonotary, secular canon of the church of Saint-Pierre in Macôn (c. 1519-1593) |
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Resource type | Printed book |
Date | 1580 |
Inscription | |
References | Saint-Julien 1580, p. 204 |
Bibliography | Papillon 1742, II, p. 224-226 ; DLF XVIe siècle, p. 1059 ; Rebourg 1993, pp. 146-147 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 113-116 |
Remarks | The ruins of the monument identified as the Temple of Proserpina are situated in the area known as 'La Folie', north-west of the 'Pont Saint Andoche'. The foundations were excavated in the 19th century |
Transcription
« quant au temple de Cupidon les bons compagnons tiennent qu’il estoit en des brussailles en la montagne où il y a encores une fontaine qui a un nom digne du Dieu auquel elle estoit consacrée. » |