Four
aisles divided into three rows of columns; six metres lower down, some tunnels,
more ancient and cut from the tufa; it’s a group of reservoirs belonging, it
seems, to the sumptuous villa of the orator Quinto Ortensio Ortalo. It was
passed on first to Antonia Minore, the daughter of Marco Aurelio and mother of
the emperor Claudio, then to his nephew, the emperor Nero who, in Bacoli
prepared the mortal trap for his mother Agrippina.
View
of the Cento Camerelle – P. Petrini – XV111 century