A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 123
A, near^Pescara, Italy. S. Cle.mente, the abbey church, wasfounded in 854 by Ludwig II., was de-stroyed in the xi cent, by the Saracens,and rebuilt in the xii substantially as itnow appears. It is a three-aisled basilica,with transept and single apse raised abovethe nave floor. The nave, about 125… … Fig. 46-—caserta Nuova, R, , p., . M I ,-, r, ported by twelve antique columns, whichdoubtless belongs to the original church.The handsome square pulpit dates, accord-ing to its inscrijition, from the ix cent.,and the altar is an old Christian sarcopha-gus. The interesting part of the exteri-or is…
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