TO NERO’S PALACE.

Shannon News, 6 November 1925, Page 2

TO NERO’S PALACE.

MAN WHO HUG DOWN. THE "QUIET” PROCEDURE. The death has occurred at Rome of Professor Boni, the famous archaeologist. Pie had an apoplectic seizure a few days previously. He had been for the past thirty years one of the world’s leading archaeologists. He was known a s "The Hermit of the Palatine,” where ho lived in a little villa, surrounded by a charming gar,, don, superintending the excavations of the Palatine Hill, As director of excavations, he pierced deep into the heart of the Pala. Tine Hill, and brought layer after layer of Imperial and Republican Rome to light. On top of all were medieval and modern buildings, then age after age of successive phases of culture beneath one another. Far below the surface Professor Boni found the Palace of Nero, with its indoor fish pond, and beneath that a house which, he had identified as Calilines’ conspiracy was hatched one of which, Professor Boni believes, Catiliens conspiracy was hatched. These results were made possible by Professor Boni’s jnel hod of training his workmen to become trained archaeologists. He treated them as friends, and Anatole France has portrayed these delightful relations in ‘Sur le Pierre Blanche.’ The King and Queen visited Com. mendatore Boni in his villa when they were in Rome two years ago, were conducted by him over the sites of his world-famous excavations.