Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5 If you chance to go to Rome and visit the Villa Pamfili, you will, in all probability, after passing some little time beneath its tall pines and along the shores of its watercourses, enjoying the shade and cool air which are so hard to find in the capital of Christendom, descend again toward Monte Janiculo by a lovely road which will take you by the Pauline Fountain. Having inspected that monument and paused for a moment on the terrace of the Church of St. Peter-in-Montorio, which commands a view of the whole city, you will visit the cloister of Bramante, in the centre of which is a little temple, half Greek and half Christian, its base several feet below the ground level, on the very spot where St. Peter was crucified. Then you will go up through a side door into the church itself. There the courteous cicerone will point out to you, in the first chapel at the right, the "Christ Scourged, " of Sebastiano del Piombo, and in the third chapel at the left, a "Christ at the Sepulchre, " by Fiamingo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.