Days near Rome . n-terior, which is one of the most remarkable in Italy. Onthe first floor is an open gallery of immense length, thearcades divided by pillars richly decorated with marble staircase, with open loggias on every landing,ascends to the top of the palace, whence there is a gloriousview, and beneath are beautiful gardens extending to theopen country. Near the top of the staircase is a very finestatue of Minerva Pudicitia (with its own head, that at theVatican being an addition) found at Velletri. The palaceis nov/ inhabited by Prince Gianetti, who kindly allows itto be
Days near Rome . n-terior, which is one of the most remarkable in Italy. Onthe first floor is an open gallery of immense length, thearcades divided by pillars richly decorated with marble staircase, with open loggias on every landing,ascends to the top of the palace, whence there is a gloriousview, and beneath are beautiful gardens extending to theopen country. Near the top of the staircase is a very finestatue of Minerva Pudicitia (with its own head, that at theVatican being an addition) found at Velletri. The palaceis nov/ inhabited by Prince Gianetti, who kindly allows itto be shown to strangers, and it is well worth visiting. Opposite the palace rises the beautiful tall detached cam-panile of Santa Maria in Trivio, raised to commemoratethe deliverance of the city from the plague in 1348, whilst itwas being besieged by Nicola Gaetani, Lord of old palaces of impoverished nobles abound in the 222 DA YS NEAR ROME. smaller streets, the most remarkable being the Palazzo Filippi,. S. Maria in Trivio, Velletri. which is really magnificent, in spite of its desertion and old palace of the popes, now called Palazzo Commun-ale, built by Giacomo della Porta, occupies the highest part ofthe town, the citadel of old Velitrse, and beside it stands thepalace of the Cardinal-Archbishop, with a bas-relief on its frontcommemorating the opening of the Via Appia Nuova by PiusIX., and an inscription rather inconsistent with present ideas— Papalis et imperialis est mihi hbertas. Close to thesejmlaces are two little churches, San Michacle and // SantissimoSangue. Over the door of the latter is an ancient sun-dial— Horologium Beronianum—foundinthe neighbouring the interior is an inscription recording a miraculous appear-ance of the Virgin, and an altar to an early Christian who has beencanonized on the belief that she was a martyr— Temporalem CATHEDRAL OF VELLETRI. 223 mortem S. Tertura Victorina comemnenscoronam vitaeseternaepossidet i
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