AND THE

ITALIAN ISLANDS,

FROM

THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME.

BY WILLIAM SPALDING, Esq.
Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Edinburgh.

WITH ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD BY JACKSON, AND ILLUSTRATIVE MAPS
AND PLANS ON STEEL

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

SECOND EDITION.

EDINBURGH:

OLIVER & BOYD, TWEEDDALE COURT;
AND SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., LONDON.

MDCCCXLI.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
H. NELSON GAY

RISORGIMENTO COLLECTION
COOLIDGE FUND

1931

H

ENTERED IN STATIONERS' HALL.

Printed by Oliver & Boyd,

Tweeddale Court, High Street, Edinburgh.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

PART I.

ANCIENT ITALY.

CHAPTER X.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE CHARACTER, LITERATURE, TOPOGRAPHY,
AND ART, OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN ITALY.

INTRODUCTION-Persecutions-Corruptions-ILLUSTRATIONS OF
CHARACTER The False Religion and the True-Symmachus
and Ambrose-Ambrose and Theodosius-The Hermit Paulinus
-Monachism-LITERATURE FROM CONSTANTINE TO ODOACER
-Theology-Heathen Writers - Struggle of the old Faith-
Ausonius-Claudian's Works-Symmachus-Ammianus-The
Encyclopedists-Christian Writers-Lactantius-Latin Doctors
-Sidonius-The Poems of Prudentius-ToPOGRAPHICAL AN-
TIQUITIES-Apostolic History and Traditions - Domine Quo
Vadis The Abbey of the Three Fountains-The Catacombs
-Roman Catacombs-Their Graves-Inscriptions-Paintings
and Sculptures-Furniture-Tokens of Martyrdom-Catacombs
elsewhere-THE BASILICA-Their Origin-The Seven Churches
of Rome Their Architecture exemplified-The Basilica of Saint
Peter-CHARACTERISTICS OF EARLY CHRISTIAN ART-Archi-
tecture-Paintings-Mosaics and Sculptures-Surviving Monu-

ments,

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