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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ing declared, ajavelin or telitm was hurled, to indicatethe impending hostilities. The Churchbelongs to the Clerics of the Madre diDio, and is remarkable for its ingeniousdistribution of light and eifective treat-ment of columns. Turning 1. into the Via di Tor deSpecchi, we pass on the 1. the Conventoccupied by S. Francesca Eomana(open on March 9th). In the richlydecorated Chapel are some plain buttasteful stalls, and hi the Oratory anold fresco of the Virgin and Childwith SS. Benedict and Scolastica.Nearly opposite the little Church ofS. Andrea in Vincis (osiers), belongingto the Scarpellini, or stone-cutters.The name is derived from the matsand ropes of withy once made in theneighbourhood. Festa, 8 Nov. Higlierup the street is the Church of S. Orsola(1607), formerly S. Niccolu de Funariis,with a slab-tomb of 1313. Hence theVicolo della Bupe Tarpea leads to the foot of the so-called Tari^eianEock (p. 53). A few steps further isthe Piazza d Ara Coeli (Rte. 4). Pi^n l5,Rt, ^<^■a 5
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