The country of The ring and the book . ia and much of the quar-ter about the Piazza di Spagna. The piazza in Lucina issmall, oddly shaped and very still. It is a favourite placefor the lounger, since it forms a placid backwater tothe rushing stream of the Corso, which eddies noisilyby this diffident retreat. The houses are of that un-obtrusive type which attract no attention and leave onthe mind only a general impression of dwellings. The church occupies the south side of the is small, humble and self-effacing, being, indeed, oneof the most modest of the churches of Rome. It seemsto
The country of The ring and the book . ia and much of the quar-ter about the Piazza di Spagna. The piazza in Lucina issmall, oddly shaped and very still. It is a favourite placefor the lounger, since it forms a placid backwater tothe rushing stream of the Corso, which eddies noisilyby this diffident retreat. The houses are of that un-obtrusive type which attract no attention and leave onthe mind only a general impression of dwellings. The church occupies the south side of the is small, humble and self-effacing, being, indeed, oneof the most modest of the churches of Rome. It seemsto be attempting to withdraw from the bustling worldand to hide itself among the adjacent houses. In thisattempt it has succeeded, for only one wall of thebuilding is visible. From somewhere among the housesaround rises a haughty campanile, with four pillaredstoreys, built of faded brick and very ancient looking, forit belongs to the thirteenth century. It appears to beanxious to disclaim any connection with the unpretend-ing church. 118. 48.—A STREET IN CORTONA. San Lorenzo in Lucina That portion of San Lorenzo which is visible would—if the buildings were correctly oriented—correspondto the west end of an English church. This fagade isvery plain, being covered with a dingy yellow plaster,and suggests an impoverished meeting-house rather thana church which was founded in the sixth century andwas rebuilt in the present form in 1606 (Plate 5). In the entrance is a porch or loggia, dark and vault-like, and always full of shadow. It is separated fromthe sunlit pavement by four simple pillars of spaces between the columns are occupied by aniron grille, in the centre of which is a plain iron entry to the guard-room of a barrack could not bemore severe. The loggia is cool, and, so long as thegate is open, people sleep there on warm are some very ancient tablets on the walls, withsuch dates as Anno Dni MCXII. and MCXXX., whilea modern inscription
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