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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1916. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... bologna, S. stefano (Plate 24, Fig. 8, 4, 5, 6; Plate 25, Fig. 1, 2, 8, 4, 5, 6, 7) I. The complex group of buildings known under the collective title of S. Stefano, comprises seven distinct edifices: the basilica of ss. Pietro e Paolo; the circular church of S. Sepolcro; a court known as the Atrio di Pilato; a group of shrines called La Trinita; a church known as the Crocefisso; the crypt of the Confessi, placed beneath this church; and, finally, the cloister of the Celestines. The whole constitutes a shrine known as Nuova Gerusalemme, symbolical of the scenes of the Passion in the Holy City, each part and detail of the Bolognese edifice being typical of some spot connected with the life of our Lord. In former times the Bolognese shrine enjoyed an enormous popularity, and even to-day is not infrequently the object of pilgrimage. It may be said at once that learned Bologna has found in the shrine of S. Stefano an archaeological puzzle which has taxed the ingenuity and cleverness of her most brilliant historians and archaeologists. The edifice has been made the object of discussion by a great number of scholars, not only of Bologna, but, indeed, of the world. Of the archaeologists who have studied the edifice from a purely architectural point of view, the first in point of time is Seroux d'Agincourt, who, in 1828, published a plan of the whole shrine, sections of ss. Pietro e Paolo, S. Sepolcro and the cloister of the Celestines, as well as a plate of details.1 Although of very small scale, his drawings are to-day of value, because they show the shrine as it was in the early part of the xix century. Even more valuable is the large view of the interior of S. Sepolcro, published by Knight2 in 1848, and in which the old Calvary and the screen between the columns and...
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