Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Templo de Diana (Nemi)" in Portuguese language version.
A letter by Giovanni Argoli dated in 1637, referred to in De donariis ac tabellis votivis by Jacopo Filippo Tomasini, informs us that (perhaps in the same year) the Frangipane, owners of the Rocca of Nemi and the land below, had carried out excavations which had brought to light many votive terracottas as well as a fragmentary statue, understood to be that of Diana herself: «simulacrum numinis ipsum, venatorio habitu succintum, mutilum tamen, mancumque; quid deterius est, capite ancisum» (Tomasini 1654, 13).
A letter by Giovanni Argoli dated in 1637, referred to in De donariis ac tabellis votivis by Jacopo Filippo Tomasini, informs us that (perhaps in the same year) the Frangipane, owners of the Rocca of Nemi and the land below, had carried out excavations which had brought to light many votive terracottas as well as a fragmentary statue, understood to be that of Diana herself: «simulacrum numinis ipsum, venatorio habitu succintum, mutilum tamen, mancumque; quid deterius est, capite ancisum» (Tomasini 1654, 13).
