98 br. transept.
[42]. These fine woods have been since burnt down, to do honour, as I was informed, to the Emperor of Austria, on his visit to Rome in 1819. My informant, (who was then my fellow traveller) was a man of sense and of a cultivated mind, yet he could not enter into my feelings, in preferring a noble wood to the blackened stumps.
[43]. Joggles are projecting parts on the lateral surface of some of the stones forming the arch, fitted into corresponding recesses in the surface of the adjoining stone. They are only now used, where we wish to obtain the strength of an arch, without the appearance of one.
[44]. Other restorations in a better style, and preserving the character of the old work, were in progress in 1826.
[45]. This church has since been destroyed by fire, and the beautiful marble columns destroyed; many of them seemed at first little injured, but split afterwards in different places, shewing that the substance had been partially calcined. The granite and porphyry do not seem to have stood the fire better than the marble.
[46]. Fea, on the contrary, cites Procopius to prove that columns existed there as late as 536.
[47]. I have copied these dimensions from Uggeri, but I suspect they are not correct, because in the old church he assigns 68 French feet to the width of the central nave, and 200 to the whole width of the building; while in the present, which is always understood to stand on the old foundation, reinforced perhaps, but not destroyed, the width of the nave according to the same author, is only 54 such feet, and the whole width 164. The difference, if correct, can only arise from the additional thickness of the present walls and piers.
[48]. “Chi visiterà ciascheduna delle sunnominate chiese mentre vi sarà l’orazione delle quarante ore, confessato e communicato, acquistera Indulgenza plenaria, e con fermo proposito di confessarsi, acquistera dieci anni ed altrettanti quarantine d’Indulgenza per ciascheduna volta come apparisce, &c.”
[49]. In 1826 these were chiefly filled with fragments of architecture and sculpture; the paintings having been removed into some apartments in the upper story.
[50]. One of these has since been carried into execution.