CHAPTER XI.

Papal Rome--Narrow streets--St. Angelo--Benvenuto Cellini--St. Peter's--Pietà Chapel--The Dead Christ--Tomb of the Stuarts-- Anniversary of St. Peter's--Grand ceremonial--Cardinal Howard --The Vatican--Pictures--Pauline and Sistine Chapels--"The Last Judgment"--Pinacoteca--Raphael's "Transfiguration"--"The Madonna"--Christian Martyrs--Sculptures--Tapestries--Leo XIII.--Italian Priesthood--St. John Lateran--Marvellous legends and relics--Native irreverence to sacred edifices 119