Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...tomb of Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia, who abdicated his throne in 1802 and died a Jesuit in this house in 1819. 213.--ANCIENT MANSIONS ON THE ALTA SEMITA, NEAR S. ANDREA. The large garden near the Church of S. Andrea, with a railing separating it from the street, belonged to the Jesuit novitiate. In it St. Stanislaus and St. Aloysius must have often walked. Here stood the house of Pomponius Atticus, the friend of Cicero, discovered in 1558 to be in so perfect a condition that the family documents and deeds, inscribed on bronze, were still hanging on the walls of the Tablinum.3 1 See Nos. 87, 89. 2 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Notes on Italy. 8 Lanciani, Pagan and Christian Rome, p. 191. 252 CHURCHES AND CONVENTS DESTROYED The garden has on its east side the Belgian College,1 near which is the little Church of S. Carlo, alle Quattro Fontane, belonging to the Spanish Trinitarians. From a window of this college (then a convent), the revolutionists of 1848 fired shots into the Pope's apartments in the Quirinal, one of which killed Monsignor Palma, as stated above. This was the site of the house of the Flavii, belonging to Flavius Sabinus, brother of Vespasian, and father of St. Flavius Clemens and St. Plautilla. The family mansion was converted by Domitian into a mausoleum, where Vespasian, Titus, Flavius Sabinus, Julia, daughter of Titus, and lastly Domitian himself were buried. The small Church of S. Carlo, alle Quattro Fontane, built in 1640, is oval in form and has a fantastical facade designed by Borromini. The church is said to correspond in measurement to one of the four pilasters of St. Peter's cupola. At the Quattro Fontane begins the Via Venti Settembre, the Alta Semita of ancient times, known as the Via Porta Pia till 1870. The present name Venti Se...
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