This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...century and the Guiscard fire proved a serious setback to civil architecture, and over a century elapsed before it recovered. In connection with the reconstruction of the city the leaders of the Church appear to have wanted to take a sort of general "account of stock." A number of documents show that this applied not ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...century and the Guiscard fire proved a serious setback to civil architecture, and over a century elapsed before it recovered. In connection with the reconstruction of the city the leaders of the Church appear to have wanted to take a sort of general "account of stock." A number of documents show that this applied not only to mediaeval monuments, both religious and civil, but to the ruins of the ancient city. A guide-book to the city was drawn up which, under the name of Mirabilia, the Marvels of the City of Rome, had a general diffusion over Europe. It has been shown by Duchesne to have been written, c. 1130, by the monk Benedict, author of the public ceremonial book, the Ordo. To supplement this there was apparently--perhaps not till later--a bird's-eye-view plan drawn, showing the position of the principal buildings, ancient and recent. This general study was supplemented by monographs on the principal basilicas, of which the two most important, those of the Lateran and Vatican basilicas, have been preserved. Careful lists of the churches and monasteries were drawn up, with the amounts due to each from the Papal treasury, and the organization of the Roman priesthood in the general association of the Fraternitaa Romana, with its four subdivisions, was recognized as an offset to the careful organization of the mass of citizens under their guilds and in their rioni or quarters. Once more the unions, or guilds, which had never ceased to exist in Rome, became of importance in the artistic development of the city. Elsewhere I shall speak of this in connection with the schools of artists, and merely call attention here to the grouping of the guilds in the city. Each occupied a street or group of streets, where they lived and kept shop: here they had th...
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