The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02
VATICAN and IT'S
irregularities
History of How 1t Was Built by
Many PopeS.
LEO DID NOT FAIL IN DUTY
Visit Through the Sacred Halls
of the Church.
LEO DID NOT FAIL IN DUTY

palace of the Christian world. He planned
to include within its walls all the Offices
of the papal government. Every Cardinal
was to be housed within It's precincts.
But little was accomplished by this Pope
toward the fulhlIment OF his purpose. All
that he saw finished were the Tower Of
Dorgia and a private chapel.
Nearly every succeeding Pope had add
ed something to the building OF the Vati-
can, until it has become an immense pile
Of irregular architecture, descriptive of
the successive certificates and telling Of
the individual characters AM. tastes of the
various Popes VINO Inhabited the palace
long enough to leave some impression Of
their own. After the Pope retired from
Avignon they found their former residence
on the Lateran Hill In ruins, and adopted
the Vatican in its stead in order to OBJ
tain the greater security given by the
Castle Of St Angelo close at hand,
covered gallery connecting the palace and
the fortress along the north line Of the
Leonine wall
Alexander VI constructed what is
known as the old palace, called the APP
parliament Borgia, and TO this part Six
tus " added in 1474, the Sixtine Chapel.
The Belvedere was erected by Innocent
VIII. in 1890 and julius ii. united the
Belvedere to the palace by the celebrated
Loggie. To Julius II. the Vatican Is m
debted for the beginning of the museum.
and its foundations were laid in the gar
dens of the Belvedere under his initiation.
mia fd6
Logic, employing Raphael to direct the
work.
By 1900 the section of the palace was
completed which includes the ordinary
residence of the Pope. 1t is the most
conspicuous portion of the mass of build
ings rising above the Piazza of st. Peter.
The Ioggie were enclosed in glass by
Piux TX. thus protecting from the wealth
er the frescoes of Raphael, and in the
course of his long reign he made many
improvements in the picture galleries.
The special work by which Leo XIII.
left his mark on the Vatican was the
decoration of the Gallery of Candelabra
with frescoes by Seitz, with pavement
of precious marbles and antique statuary
from recent excavations. while he built
can Library and a new wing for printed
books, further comforting an immense
boon on foreign students by throwing
open the Vatican archives and providing
them with accommodation.
The celebrated staircase, the Scala Re-
eia. was constructed by Bernini under
Urban VIII. Subsequent Popes built the
range Of apartments for the Museo Pho
Clementino and the Egyptian and Etrus-
can museums. The fourth side OF the
Cortele di San Damaso was closed by
Plus TX, who reconstructed the great
staircase leading from the arcades of the
piazza. into the court.
Altogether the Vatican Palace covers an
area of about thirteen and one-half acres,
of which about six are occupied by the
twenty courts, and contains perhaps a
thousand halls, chapels, saloons and pri-
vate apartments. the greater part Of
which are comparatively small part Of
the building being set apart for the
Papal court.
After Rome was made the political capi-
tai of United Italy in 1870. the Italian
government by the Legge dele guarent-
gle of May 49, 1871 placed the Vatican
and the Lateran together with the Castel
Gandolfo, S. NJ Maggiore. the Cancelleria
and the Dataria under the absolute and
peculiar jurisdiction Of the Pope, these
possessions being all that remain of the
former temporal dominion Of the Pontiffs,
and being considered no part Of the po-
litical kingdom OF Italy. Under the same
statute an annual income of s550.000 was
assigned by the state TO the Pope. but
the money payment has never been &C
cepted. Every five years the accumula-
ton .lapses to the government and cannot
afterward be claimed.
The length Of the palace is Isl feet I
and its breadth 767. 1t has eight grand
staircases. The principal entrance 20 the I.
Vatican is at the end of the right colon
made of ST. Peters. where door on the
right opens upon the staircase leading /
to the Cortile di Damazo.
The famous Sixtine Chapel. which fig /
ures so prominently in connection with a 4
Pores death and the election of his sue
cessor. was formerly hung on the fesu- /
walls with the tapestries executed from 1
the cartoons OF Raphael. The upper por-
ton is decorated IN fresco by the great /
Florentine masters OF the fifteenth cen +
fury. on the pillar between the windows (
are the figures Of tventy-eight Popes, BY 4
Sandro Botticelli.
The vast fresco of The Last Judgment 4
OCCUPIED Michael Angelo seven years and +
was finished in lss1 under Paul III
ONLY those strangers admitted 10 spe-
cial audience ever see the small portion I
OF the Vatican inhabited by the Pore +
The three rooms occupied by the Pon'iT .
are furnished with the utmost simplicity 4
They consist OF the bare Green Saloon. 4
the Red Saloon. containing throne sank /
ed by benches. and the bedroom. with 4
yellow draperies. & large writing table and f
a few pictures Of old masters The Papal +
lie Is necessarily n lonely one. as the .
dread ~ an accusation Of nePotiSTn has !
prevented any q the later Pores from 4
having any OF their family with them. 4
and etiquette always obliges them 20 dine /
alone Plus ~ seldom saw his family. j
but Leo MIL was often visited twice 4 1
asv By his relations. Ia saint fauafiie.'
as they are generally called
From the windows ~ the Egyptian MI i
scum one can look down upon the Inner
garden Of the Vatican. known A. the 1
Gisrdiuo della Ptgzsa. from THE famous i
Ptrna. = gigantic fir cone. said oace 20
hzve crowned the summit, q the rnauso-
leurn OF Hatrisn- Dante saw & a. s.
Peters. where II stood n fron; az The
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ferno.
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