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Title: The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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^ raised the level of the whole district. Wehave evidence of this in the two churches of S. Clemente,one above the other. The lower church shows the levelof the city before, and the upper that after, the fire.The reconstruction of S. Clemente was undertaken, afterthe withdrawal of Robert Guiscard, by Cardinal Anas-tasius, who died in 1126 or 1128, leaving the comple-tion of the work to Cardinal Pietro Pisano. Thisinformation has lately been obtained from the epitaphof Cardinal Pisano, which was accidentally discoveredin tlie foundations of a new house in Via Arenula. Themarble slab on which this inscription was cut appearsto have been divided up into small squares, at an un-known date, to pave a room in a house two miles dis-tant from S. Clemente. There is a difference in levelof thirteen feet and seven inches between the earlierand the later church.
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13o 03 a oo O THE SACK OF 1084 165 The fate of another ecclesiastical building on theCaelian, the church of the SS. Quattro Coronati, de-stroyed by the same fire, is somewhat different. Thischurch was rebuilt by Paschal II. in 1111 on the samelevel, for the reason that the debris of the fire had evi-dently rolled down the slopes of the knoll on which thebuilding stood, but it occupies only a small portion ofthe original area. We learn from the inscription ofPaschal II., still extant, that he made excavations underthe marble floor in search of some holy relics: iussitcavare sub altare quod prius comhustum et confractumfuerat et invenit duas concas unam porpTiireticam et aliamex proconesso in quibus erant recondita sacra corpora.The work was not completed till January 7, 1116. Tothe same Pope is due also the reconstruction of thechurches of S. Adriano in the Forum Romanum (1110),of S. Maria in Monticelli, of S. Pantaleo ai Monti (1113),of S. Salvatore in Primicerio (1113), and of a chap

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