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 463
back. The cloister is the court ofthe monastery attached to the church,which was founded by Benedictine monks.The Lateran church and palace taketheir name from the Roman family of theLaterani. whose palace the present build-ings rejjlace. Constantine gave the palaceto Sylvester, then bishop of… … Fig. 185.—Rome, S. Giovanni in Laterano. popes were driven to Avignon, in the be-ginning of the XIV cent., the Lateran wastheir residence and its church their pri-vate chapel: when they returned to Rome,in 1377, the Vatican became their resi-dence and St. Peters their chapel ; butthe Lateran church…
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