Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 318
the Via Ap])ia. According to a pojjular legend, Andrew the Apostlehaving l)een crucified at Patras, his head was severedfrom the body and left at the j)lace of execution, whilethe body, after many wanderings, found a place of restat Amalfi. When the Turks invaded INIorea in 1459,and Thomas, the… … THE ^SHRINE ON THE FLAMINIAN ROAD Markiugf the spot at wliie-li the head of St. Andrew was received by PopePius II from the hands of Cardinal Bessarion THE LAND OF CICERO 279 the marvellous inise-en-aceiie for its triumphal receptionarranged by the humanist Pope, and of the part playedin it by…
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