The golden days of the renaissance in Rome, from the pontificate of Julius II to that of Paul III (1906)
Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 29
tion of the plague. The imageto which they appealed is still there, one of the most popularin Rome; in fact, the church of the Aracoeli itself is theproperty of the S. P. Q. R. Another disaster marks the year 1348 as the most fatal,perhaps, in the history of the mediaeval city. An earthquake,… … The marble stairs of tlie Araeteli, built in comraenioration of the Black Plague of lo4S,from a rare engraving- in which women are seen ascending- on their knees facade and l)elfrv of St. John the Lateran met with the samefate ; St. Paul outside the Walls was transformed into a heapof ruins; the…
