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Lionel's Journey to Italy 



contained the relics of the Three Magi, besides the splendid 

 Gothic monument to Peter Martyr,^^ erected some thirty years 

 before.^^ 



Entering- at the Porta Ticinese, the guests of Galeazzo would 

 next have seen, on the right, the most striking piece of Roman 

 architecture in the city, a porch of sixteen Corinthian columns. 



Plan of Milan near the Cathedral. 



(From Giulini 7. 335.) 



just behind which rose the oldest church of Milan, S. Lorenzo. 

 Turning into the present Via Torino through the Porta Ticinese 

 of the inner, or Roman wall, the procession would have passed 



°^ Figured in Venturi, pp. 547-561. 



" Here every year, beginning with 1336, at the Feast of the Epiphany 

 (Twelfth Night, Jan. 6), the following ceremony took place (Giulini 5. 



