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Page 6 - Occurrunt •• animte , quales neque candidiores Terra tulit, neque queis me sit devinctior alter. O qui complexus, et gaudia quanta fuerunt! Nil ego contulerim jucundo
Page 186 - The sculptures on the west side are nearly all erased. Beneath the base of the pyramidal top we have the crowned hawk , a pair on each side , with a serpent behind each attached to a globe. There are only two varieties of cartouches , one containing the praenomen and the other the name.
Page 161 - of sundry fruits and leaves, tied with ribbons, forms a circular border round a compartment of white mosaic enclosing three figures of masks, and a landscape with goats and shepherds. In the passage leading to the gallery is the statue of a dancing Faun, and near a small Diana a
Page 27 - Paul were confined in it under Nero, and a spring of water, said to have been used at the baptism of Processus and Martinian, the keepers of the prison, who afterwards suffered martyrdom , is still visible. Over the prison is the CHURCH OF
Page vii - 1198 Innocent III, Conti. Anagni. 1216 Honorius III, Savelli. Rome. 1227 Gregory IX, Conti. Anagni. 1241 Celestin IV, Milan. 1243 Innocent IV, Fieschi. Genoa. 1254 Alexander IV, Conti. Anagni. 1261 Urban IV. Troyes. 1264 Clement IV, Foucauld.
Page 127 - restored by cardinal Pallavicini on the designs of Rossi. In the chapel to the right of the high altar is a fine painting of the Madonna , child and
Page 153 - of the libraries of the elector palatine, of the dukes of Urbino, of queen Christina , of the Capponi and
Page 42 - 485; the arena, the podium, and steps were repaired by the former , the arena and podium, by Basilius. The arena , so called from the sand that covered the ground had one principal entrance to the east, the other to the west, and formed an ellipsis of 285 feet long , 182 wide, and 748 in circumference. It was surrounded by a wall
Page 10 - Trajan's column it is supposed that it once contained the ashes of that emperor. In the centre of the square is the equestrian statue of Marcus
Page 50 - marble steps so consumed by friction that it became necessary to cover them with wood. At the top of the stairs, under the altar of the