pincii

Updated: May 12, 2025

All of these persons are here for a legitimate purpose; that is, to sit as models, for a given sum per hour, and to this object they honestly adhere. It probably derives its name from the Pincii family, whose estate it belonged to in the period of the Empire. Hereabouts, of old, were the celebrated gardens of Lucullus; and here Messalina, wife of Claudius, indulged in revelries.

Maturin Murray Ballou - Foot-prints of Travel: or, Journeyings in Many Lands