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Title: Italy : handbook for travellers
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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th gold, mosaics, and marble. At Christ-mas, in the year 800, Charlemagne received here the Roman imperialcrown from the hands of Leo III., and numerous emperors and popeswere subsequently crowned here. In the course of time the edifice had at length become so damagedtha.t Nicholas V. (p. 1) determined on its reconstruction, and in1450 began the posterior tribune, from the design of the FlorentineBernardino Rossellino. According to this, the church was to havethe form of a Latin cross (i.e., with one arm longer than the others),and the ohoir was to be rounded internally, and to form half of ahexagon externally. The proportions were so adjusted that thechoir and the transept completely enclosed the corresponding parts 282 V. Bight Eank. ROME. S. Pietro of the old church. The walls had risen to a height of 4-5 ft. onlywhen it was interrupted by the death of the pope. The work was not resumed till 50 years later, when a newimpulse was given to the undertaking by the idea of Julius II. to
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- cK .A erect a monument to himbelf during his own lifetime (p. lii), forwhich, as there was no sufficient room in the church, it wasproposed to add a chapel. For this proposal was next substitutedanother, that tlie church itself should be altered, and that thebeginning of Rossellinis building should be utilised; but this lastsuggestion was afterwards abandoned as being likely to interferewith the independence of the w^ork, and it was at length resolved The original of the above plan (so far as shaded), signed, ■BramanteArch, et pit.^ is preserved in the cdlleetion of architectural drawings inthe Uffizi at Florence (vol. 49, or Cartella Grande). in Vaticano. ROME. V. Riyht Bank. 283 to erect an entirely new edifice. The tradition, that Julius II. hadinvited numbers of architects, including Giuliano da Sangallo , tosubmit designs, and that Beamante was the successful competitor,is probably true. The numbers of sketches and designs preservedin the collection of drawings in the Uffizi

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