Identifier: southbyeastnotes00rodwrich (find matches)
Title: South by east : notes of travel in southern Europe
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Rodwell, G. F. (George Farrer), b. 1843
Subjects: Europe, Southern -- Description and travel 1871-1918
Publisher: London : M. Ward & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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column was not yet quite in a vertical position. Asailor in the crowd, however, who knew that ropes shorten whenthey are moistened, called out, Moisten the ropes, and thecontraction thus produced enabled the 800 workmen to hoist theobelisk into its proper position. The sailor, who lived on theRiviera, near S. Remo, was rewarded by being allowed to providethe palm-branches for the Palm Sunday services in S. Peters, amonopoly still enjoyed by his descendants. On each side of theobelisk there is a fine fountain, and at the corners of the steps leadingto S. Peters there are colossal statues. On the rioht the colonnadeleads to the Vatican Palace. The earliest Basilica of S. Peter issaid to have been erected by the Emperor Constantine. It was amagnificently-decorated edifice containing a quantity of treasure,and inlaid with mosaics. Many Emperors and Popes were crownedin it, amonoj others CharlemaQ:ne, who received his crown fromLeo III. in 800. The old cathedral had fallen into a state of
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o o H S. Peter s. 79 decay by the middle of the fifteenth century, and had likewise beendamaged by fire. Pope Nicholas V. commenced the new buildingin 1450, and it was continued by Julius 11., Leo X., AlexanderVn., and Urban VIII., under the charge of the most skilledarchitects of the time, notably Michael Angelo, Fontana, andBernini. The church was finally consecrated in 1626, on thethirteen-hundredth anniversary of the consecration of the originaledifice by Sylvester. It has from first to last cost nearly£12,000,000 sterling. Cardinal Wiseman, in his essay on the Points of Contact between Science and Art, has given aninteresting account of the method which was adopted to strengthenthe dome. As early as the year 1681, it was noticed that largecracks were beginning to show themselves in the dome, and theseincreased to such an extent that it was feared that the wholestructure would fall in. The weight was calculated, and it wasfound that the dome alone with its lantern weighed more th

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