[330] As in the portico of the temple of Mars were preserved the verses of the poet Attius upon Junius Brutus.
[331] These letters are in real mosaic. Those in the nave and transepts are in paper—to complete them in mosaic would have been too expensive.
[332] Innocent sent two bishops to receive it at Ancona, two cardinals to receive it at Narni, and went himself, with all his court, to meet it at the Porto del Popolo.
[333] Eaton's Rome.
[334] Gregorovius, Grabmäler der Päpste.
[335] There is a fine portrait of Urban VIII. by Pietro da Cortona, in the Capitol gallery.
[336] See Vasari, vi. 265.
[337] This mosaic occupied ten men constantly for nine years, and cost 60,000 francs.
[338] Gregorovius.
[339] He had been bishop of St. Alban's, and a missionary for the conversion of Norway.