Identifier: handbookofromeca00john (find matches)
Title: A handbook of Rome and the Campagna
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: John Murray (Firm)
Subjects: Rome (Italy) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d beds.—M. The mass of concrete behindthe walls is probably the earliestinstance of its use in Eome. Crossing the road, we ascend S. to*S. Saba, on the site of the Barracksof the 4th battalion or cobort ofRoman policemen ( Vigiles). It origi-nally bore the title of SS. Saha$ etAndreas ad Ctllam Novam, becauseit was the first Hospice which theBasilian Tnonks obtained in Eome.Gregory XIII. gave the Church andits Garden to the German College. Onthe 1., in the portico, is an ancientsarcophagus representing a weddingfeast, and there is some good Cosma-tesque mosaic work round the door-way. A similar fragment may be seenat the altar of the semi-crypt. Atthe high altar are two fine columns ofblack and white granite, flanked bytwo of marmo hianco e nero di Egitio—the latter extremely valuable andrare. The passage and rooms openingout of it on the 1. of the Church onceformed a second and third aisle onthis side, added to the original build-ing. Festa, Dec. 5th, on which day a Plaxa7,Rt,.a7
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/izl^li The City. Route 27.—Ponte Quaitro Cajn. 221 curious piece of tapestry, represent-ing the Virgin and Ciiild with sevenfeiniilo Saints and St. Nicholas, isaffixed to the front of the altiir. OnThurs. afternoon some students of theGerman College are generally in tliegarden, and the traveller may obtainadmittance by knocking at the door.Gootl view from the loggia above tlieportico, at the end of which, on theoutside, is a window framed in scrapsof wiiite marble. Beneath the monas-tery is a large quarry of hard reddish-brown tufa. Descending from S. Saba, and turn-ing twice to the rt. and then to the 1.,we reach the ancient Church of S. Balbina, consecrated by Gregorythe Cireat in (JOO upon the site of anDratory dedicated to the Saviour in33(3. It was formerly Augustinian,and new belongs to the Chapter ofSt. Pefers. There are three smallroiuid windows in the front. On the1. is the *recumbent effigy of StefanoSurdi, by Joh, Commas (129;)), adornedwith mosaics. Over the altar on th

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