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The first four were already built by Pope Nicolaus V,~ and it is thought, the first is even of older date, if it be true what Platina says in his Lives of the Popes, that there were frescos by Giotto upon the facades, of which Vasari also makes mention in his Life of John of Udine. Venice, Antonelli, vol. XIII, pag. 38.
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