Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1906 — A Famous Old Castle. [ARTICLE]

A Famous Old Castle.

The ancient castle of Sant Angelo, which has beheld time’s changes since the pagan days of the Roman empire, has been, after years of neglect and decay, restored to a condition worthy of an Institution that flourished before onr era as the burial place of the later Caesars, before It became first the great citadel of the popes and then the central prison of the papal administration. The building was at all epochs ornamented with fine works of art. Some have been already restored to the surface from under successive layers of plaster, and quite recently there has been brought to light a sculptured recess of the Court of Alexander VI. Among the painters whose work adorns the castle are Giulio Romano, Gian dl Udine aud Caravaggio.