The Pilgrim's Guide to Rome - Brossura

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9781150394911: The Pilgrim's Guide to Rome

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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent généralement télécharger une copie gratuite scannée du livre original (sans les coquilles) auprès de l'éditeur. Non référencé. Non illustré. 1900 edition. Extrait: ...the Madonna. The fifth altar to the left is consecrated to the Blessed Virgin. In this chapel were deposited the mortal remains of the great painter Raphael Sanzio, as his modest tomb attests; in the neighbouring chapel is a monument erected to the memory of Cardinal Consalvi, who arranged the Concordat of 1801 with the French Republic. In this same church is to be seen another tomb, that of Victor Emmanuel. It is in the fourth chapel on the right. The King's body was placed here quietly on the day of the funeral, at ten o'clock at night. On leaving the church we take on our right the Via della Minerva, and notice how round about the Pantheon the ground has been raised, but presently we reach a regular piazza. In the middle of this place is an obelisk, which an elephant is carrying on his back, and on one side of the piazza is the Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva. Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.(Our Lady above the Minerva) (Plan H, 6).--. This church is so called because it was erected j on the site of a temple which Pompey, after his i conquests in Asia, had dedicated to Minerva. n the facade are inscriptions indicating the ghts attained by the waters of the Tiber on i,ne occasion of several extraordinary risings or overflows. This church, which is.in the Gothic style of architecture, belongs to the Dominican Fathers, who have restored it with much magnificence; it contains numerous chapels, only the most remarkable of which can be mentioned here. In the right aisle the first chapel after the little side-door is the Chapel of the Annunciation; it is the head-quarters of a confraternity established in the fifteenth century for providing dowries for poor young maidens. This...

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