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Title: Italy : handbook for travellers
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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in the style of the earliest mosaics. Otherfrescoes, such as two scenes of Agapffi (love-feasts), belong to the 3rd cent.The representation is often very realistic. The Catacomb of St. Fontianus, V2 M- from the Porta Portese, is ex-cavated in the breccia of Monte Verde. At the foot of a staircase descen-ding into it, is a basin with water, serving as a baptistery. On the vsallbeyond is the Baptism of Christ (with a stag near the Jordan), above alarge cross in the later style. Above the staircase are two large medal-lions with heads of Christ of the 6th and 9th centuries. The Oratorio of S. Alessandro, 6 M. from the Porta Pia (p. 355), in theTenuta del Coazzo (permesso at the Propaganda), is a long, half-subterranean building, the very poor masonry of which is well preservedin the lower part. According to an inscription on the altar, this was thetomb of Pope Alexander. The oratory is surrounded with lofty passagesstill containing undisturbed tombs. Catacomb of St. Generosa, see p. 347.
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