Wanderings in the Roman campagna . II, and the schism of Basle. At the con-clave of 1455, following the death of the great Nicho-las V, he was on the point of receiving a majority of thevotes, when a ludicrous allusion by Cardinal iVlain ofBrittany to his long, flowing beard, typical of Easternprelates, turned the election in favor of the SpaniardCalHxtus III. His name is connected with two oems ofart,—the shrine of St. Andrew the Apostle, on the Fla-minian road, and the presbyterial house adjoining thechurch of S. Cesario on the Via Ap])ia. According to a pojjular legend, Andrew the Apostleha
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . II, and the schism of Basle. At the con-clave of 1455, following the death of the great Nicho-las V, he was on the point of receiving a majority of thevotes, when a ludicrous allusion by Cardinal iVlain ofBrittany to his long, flowing beard, typical of Easternprelates, turned the election in favor of the SpaniardCalHxtus III. His name is connected with two oems ofart,—the shrine of St. Andrew the Apostle, on the Fla-minian road, and the presbyterial house adjoining thechurch of S. Cesario on the Via Ap])ia. According to a pojjular legend, Andrew the Apostlehaving l)een crucified at Patras, his head was severedfrom the body and left at the j)lace of execution, whilethe body, after many wanderings, found a place of restat Amalfi. When the Turks invaded INIorea in 1459,and Thomas, the last of the PahTologues, sought safetyin flight, the head, offered to Pope Pius II, was re-moved to the fortress of Narni and intrusted to the careof Bessarion. Of its transfer to Rome in April, 146^2, of. THE ^SHRINE ON THE FLAMINIAN ROAD Markiugf the spot at wliie-li the head of St. Andrew was received by PopePius II from the hands of Cardinal Bessarion THE LAND OF CICERO 279 the marvellous inise-en-aceiie for its triumphal receptionarranged by the humanist Pope, and of the part playedin it by Bessarion, it is unnecessary to speak after thebrilliant account given ]jy Gregorovius in volume vii ofhis Geschichte. Amemorial of this event is to be foundin a shrine still standing on the right of the Flaminianroad, not far from the Milvian bridge. It has the shapeof a canopy supported by four alabaster columns, shel-tering the statue of the saint, a work of Varrone andNicolao of Florence, mentioned by Vasari in his life ofAntonio Filarete. It marks the exact spot where theskull was handed to the Pope by Bessarion and wherethe speech was delivered which Gregorovius compares,not without reason, to the one uttered by Cola di presbyterial house attac
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