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 486
conse-crated by the blood of the early martyrs,and covering the adjacent tomb or ilarty-rium of St. Peter, which, according totradition, is that which is still preserved.Constantine, the tradition says, passing thejilace in his triumphant entry into Romeafter his defeat of Maxentius, vowed… … Fig. 197.—Rome. St. Peters with its Colonnades. ft. across, with transept projecting to 270ft., and a nave 70 ft. wide. Its decora-tions and furniture, destroyed and dis-persed at or before its destruction, werethe wonder of pilgrims and church his-torians during the middle ages. Thischurch, built…
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