The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments . Laurentius of the Ordo, rebuilt in its present shape by theCesi d Acquasparta in 1G59. 7. S. Maria in Virgari. This was a church at the end of the covered way, towardSt. Peters, so called from the corporation of makers and sellersof pilgrims staffs, to which it belonged. Pius IV. demolishedit in 1508 to widen the area mentioned under the next head. 8. Cortina Beati Petri. This was a small square at the foot of the steps of St. Peters,ornamented with three fountains, one of which was of por-phyry ; the other two were o
The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments . Laurentius of the Ordo, rebuilt in its present shape by theCesi d Acquasparta in 1G59. 7. S. Maria in Virgari. This was a church at the end of the covered way, towardSt. Peters, so called from the corporation of makers and sellersof pilgrims staffs, to which it belonged. Pius IV. demolishedit in 1508 to widen the area mentioned under the next head. 8. Cortina Beati Petri. This was a small square at the foot of the steps of St. Peters,ornamented with three fountains, one of which was of por-phyry ; the other two were of white marble. Interesting as it would be to follow the worthy canonthrough the other parts of the City, the limits of our task THE ITINERARY OF BENEDICT 179 forbid. Mediaeval Rome has now almost reached thelimit of its greater changes. The level of the ancientCity in most places lies ten or twelve feet below thesurface. A large portion of the site of the once proudmetropolis is wholly deserted ; the great monuments,moss-grown and crumbling except where the solidity of. Fig. 31.—A typical Roman house of the twelfth century, built with odd fragments. construction was such as to defy Nature herself, are inpart turned to account as habitations, in j^art exploitedfor such building materials as are of use to the scantypopulation of degenerate days (Fig. 31), in part leftundisturbed in the midst of the wilderness. CHAPTER XVI MARBLE-CUTTERS AND LIME-BURNERS OF MEDIAEVALAND RENAISSANCE ROME In the exploiting of the Roman monuments for valu-able materials in mediaeval and early modern times,two classes of workmen in particular wrought the mostserious damage. These were the Marmorarii, or marble-cutters, and the Calcararii, or lime-burners. The Roman marble-cutters, architects, sculptors, andmosaic-makers, whose work w^as in a sense a precursorof the Renaissance, whose artistic creations still commandour admiration, are generally called the School ofCosmatis. The Cosmatis, however, a
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