. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. ica had become the 1 These were stolen by the Saracens in the sack of 846. Grimaldi climbed the roof at the beginning of 1603 and found it covered with threekinds of tiles, bronze, brick, and lead, — the bronze cast in the time of the Emperor Ha-drian for the roof of the temple of Venus and Rome, and transferred to S. Peters about6o0 ; the brick tiles all stamped with the inscription or seal of Theodorie, fifth century ;the lead stamped with names of various Popes in the twelfth and thirteenth cen
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. ica had become the 1 These were stolen by the Saracens in the sack of 846. Grimaldi climbed the roof at the beginning of 1603 and found it covered with threekinds of tiles, bronze, brick, and lead, — the bronze cast in the time of the Emperor Ha-drian for the roof of the temple of Venus and Rome, and transferred to S. Peters about6o0 ; the brick tiles all stamped with the inscription or seal of Theodorie, fifth century ;the lead stamped with names of various Popes in the twelfth and thirteenth , p. loO. 2 GregoroviuS; ii. pp. 126-440. 26 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY centre of an important group of convents, hospitals, and dwellings,which, standing without the city walls and cpiite unj)rotected, hadrepeatedly been the object of attack from various enemies. In 846St. Peters and St. Pauls, on o])posite sides of the capital, were bothsacked by the Saracens. Leo IV., the reigning Pope, with mucheffort found means in 849-852 to surround the whole of the Vatican TO ROME TO OSTIA. TRANSEPT • • e S PAULS@TOMB@ TRANSEPT
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