Library, where, however, we have no recollection of having seen it.

The 'provisional' deposition has proved more permanent than any
other. Whoever would see the resting-place of Goethe and Schiller
must descend into the Grand Ducal vault, where, through a grating,
in the twilight beyond he will catch a glimpse of their sarcophagi."


The other case of exhumation, and reinterment with funeral rites,
which I deem of sufficient importance to be recorded here, is that
of the great Raphael. In this the motive was not, as in that of
Schiller, to give his bones a worthier resting-place, nor yet, as in
so many other cases, to gratify a morbid curiosity, but to set at
rest a question of disputed identity. In this respect the case of
Raphael has a special bearing upon the matter in hand. I extract
the following from Mrs. Jameson's Lives of Italian Painters, ed.
1874, p. 258:


"In the year 1833 there arose among the antiquarians of Rome a keen
dispute concerning a human skull, which on no evidence whatever,
except a long-received tradition, had been preserved and exhibited
in the Academy of St. Luke as the skull of Raphael. Some even
expressed a doubt as to the exact place of his sepulchre, though
upon this point the contemporary testimony seemed to leave no room
for uncertainty.


"To ascertain the fact, permission was obtained from the Papal
Government, and from the canons of the Church of the Rotunda (i.e.,