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		Horace's Villa	Villa Romana di Orazio

	Drawing of the villa

	


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	Location	Licenza, Province of Rome, Lazio, Italy
	Type	Dwelling
	History
	Cultures	Roman
	Site notes
	Condition	Ruined
	Ownership	Public
	Public access	Yes


Horace's Villa is a Roman archaeological complex near Licenza, Italy. The identification has been made possible because Horace wrote several poems about the place, and the location of the villa corresponds to the geographical indications in the poetry.

The site can be visited today.[1]


Contents


	1 Identification
	2 Description
	3 References
	4 External links





Identification[edit]

It was owing to references to the villa in Horace's writings that humanists attempted to find the site as early as the mid-fifteenth century, but the site in Licenza was not considered as a possible candidate for two hundred years. This changed when an inscription mentioning a temple of the goddess Victory was found in nearby Roccagiovine.


  
Vicovaro (marked), close to Tibur on the Tabula Peutingeriana, 12-13th century



Horace tells in one of his poems (Epistles 1.10) that his villa was next to the sanctuary of the Sabine goddess, Vacuna. Lucas Holstenius (a mid-17th century geographer and a librarian at the Vatican Library) identified the sanctuary with the temple of the goddess Victory mentioned in the inscription, and he showed that the Romans associated the Sabine deity with their goddess Victoria. A confirmation of Holstenius' thesis came in 1757 with the discovery of the massa Mandelana inscription near Cantalupo (Mandela), which helped antiquarians to identify yet another place name mentioned by Horace as being near his Sabine estate.


Description[edit]

The Aniene Valley to the east of Rome is rich with archaeological remains. The Roman villa  on the east slope of the Colle Rotondo (980 meters above sea level) in the Lucretili Mountains near the hilltown of Licenza is one of the best preserved and most significant sites. Attributed by most scholars since the 18th century to the Roman poet Horace, this villa dates from the first century B.C. and is located just 30 miles from the center of Rome in a valley near Vicovaro and Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli.

The actual site was identified and a small portion was excavated in the 18th century. Major excavations were undertaken in the early 20th century. Thus far, the  main residence of the estate has been identified, covering, in the imperial period, some 40 x 110 meters of built space and gardens. Black and white mosaics (formerly dated to Horace's lifespan, but now known to be from the Flavian dynasty), marble wall revetment and architectonic elements, an elaborate water system, and artistic and utilitarian remains have been found. A selection of the material is on display in the local museum in the town of Licenza.


References[edit]


	^ "Horace's Villa at Licenza". Archived from the original on 2 April 2018.





External links[edit]

	Horace's Villa Project of the American Academy in Rome and the Soprintendenza Archeologica per il Lazio
	A two-part documentary about Horace's Villa
	Site of the Villa in Google Maps


	Authority control 	
	BNF: cb14535623q (data)
	GND: 4361917-4
	LCCN: sh95005567
	NLI: 000594565
	SUDOC: 076495019
	VcBA: 494/5161
	VIAF: 240066424
	 WorldCat Identities: viaf-240066424







Coordinates: 42°03′58″N 12°54′04″E / 42.0661°N 12.9011°E / 42.0661; 12.9011









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