OSTIA TRAVELLERS' ACCOUNTS AND NEWSPAPER REPORTS | |
Here we present a collection of travellers' accounts and newspaper reports from the 19th and early 20th century. |
Travellers' accounts
- Louis Couperus, From white cities below blue sky: Ostia (English translation of Uit blanke steden onder blauwe lucht: Ostia), April 1911.
- Richard Fisch, Eine Wanderung nach den Trümmern von Ostia, Berlin 1898.
- Gaston Boissier, Promenades Archéologiques, Chapitre cinquième, Ostie, Paris 1880-1895.
- Willem Nikolaas Du Rieu, Ostia, Rome's havenstad, Leiden 1863.
- John William Burgon, Letters from Rome to Friends in England: How to see Ostia with Comfort, London 1862, p. 10-12.
- Octavian Blewitt, Murray's Hand-book for Travellers in Central Italy, London 1850, p. 593-598.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt, Gesammelte Werke, V, Berlin 1846, p. 248-249.
- Mariana Starke, Travels in Europe and in the Island of Sicily: With an Account of the Remains of Ancient Italy, Paris 1836, p. 243-245.
- A Laurentian, Remarks during a Walk from Rome to Ostia, The Gentleman's Magazine 1817, part 2, p. 511-513.
- Elisa von der Recke, Tagebuch einer Reise durch ein Theil Deutschlands und durch Italien in den Jahren 1804 bis 1806, IV, Berlin 1815, p. 104-105, 109-130.
- Charles-Victor de Bonstetten, Voyage sur la scène des six derniers livres de l'Enéide, suivi de quelques observations sur le Latium moderne, Genève 1804, excerpts.
Newspaper reports
- Russell Meiggs, Announcement of the volume "Scavi di Ostia I", The Times, April 17, 1954.
- Three articles from The Times (London) about the excavations: 1) Dec. 31, 1857, p. 6; 2) May 7, 1858, p. 6; 3) Jun. 2, 1858, p. 6.
- Surinamese Newspaper, Rome, July 25, 1839, November 8, 1839.