. New guide of Rome, Naples and their environs. IRINAL. PIAZZA OF S. JOHN LATERAN. X hus named from Plautius Lateran who resided this inquarter. The palace having been destroyed by fire wasrebuilt by Sixtus V according fo ihe designs of DomenicoFontana. The present Pope has restored it. BASTISTRY OF CONSTANTIME. This building was raised by Constantine in the La-teran palace when he erected the church , it was restoredin the IX century, then by Gregory Xlll and in 1610 byUrban Ylll. An antique urn of basalt serves as the bap-tismal font, it is surmounted by a cupola supported bytwo rows of colu
. New guide of Rome, Naples and their environs. IRINAL. PIAZZA OF S. JOHN LATERAN. X hus named from Plautius Lateran who resided this inquarter. The palace having been destroyed by fire wasrebuilt by Sixtus V according fo ihe designs of DomenicoFontana. The present Pope has restored it. BASTISTRY OF CONSTANTIME. This building was raised by Constantine in the La-teran palace when he erected the church , it was restoredin the IX century, then by Gregory Xlll and in 1610 byUrban Ylll. An antique urn of basalt serves as the bap-tismal font, it is surmounted by a cupola supported bytwo rows of columns, eight of white marble and eight ofporphyry. Above the second row are paintings allusive toS. John Baptist by Andrea Sacchi. In the lateral chapelon the right are two serpentine columns, and a statue ofS. John from the original by Donatello. - BASILIC OF S. JOHN LATERAN. This basilic is the first of Rome and of the catholieworldj from Constantine it is called the Constantinian; fromthe spot on which it is built the Lateran, and having been. Third daij. 59 dedicated in tlie YII century to S. John Baptist and to theEvangelist it is also called the basilic of S. John. The primitive temple lasted ten centiiries and togetherwith the palace was destroyed by fire, but was rebuiltunder Clement V, Pius IV, and Sixtus V who added theportico. Clement the Xll raised the grand front , and de-corated it with four large columns and six pilasters tosupport the entablature, over which is a balustrade withten colossal statues of saints and that of our Saviour inthe middle. Five doors lead into the church 5 the onewalled up is called sanla , being opened only in the yearof the jubilee. The interior is divided into five naves; in the middleone are the statues of the XII apostles. The Corsini chapelbuilt bv Clement the Xll in honour of S. Andrew Corsinione of his ancestors is one of the most magnificent inRome. Over the altar between two columns of verde an-lico is a mosaic representing that sa
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