ROSWITHA THE NUN 



may still be seen in situ as it were. Besides 

 jewelled service-books, there are chalices, incense 

 burners, a gold candelabrum, and a jewelled 

 crucifix, fashioned, if not in part by him, at 

 least under his supervision. The entrance to 

 the Cathedral is beautified with delicately 

 wrought bronze doors, modelled, it may be, 

 from those of Sta. Sabina, Rome, themselves 

 considered to be of Oriental origin, 1 and in the 

 transept rises a column adorned with bronze 

 reliefs from the life of Christ, probably designed 

 by the bishop either after his pilgrimage to 

 Rome in 1001, when he had seen Trajan's 

 column, or, as a recent writer suggests, from 

 the "Juppiter and giant columns" of Roman 

 Rhineland. 2 



We are tempted to recall other princesses 

 whose marriages, and even more whose person- 

 alities, have influenced art and letters, but two 

 must suffice us the one, the beautiful and 

 cultivated ^Anne _of Bphemia^-wife of Richard 

 the Second, whose bridal retinue was in reality 

 a small Court of literary and artistic personages ; 

 the other, the brilliant Valentine Visconti of 

 Milan, sister-in-law of King Charles the Sixth 

 of France, whose influence in matters of art and 

 literature alone, at a time when England and 

 France were so intimately associated, makes her 

 of special interest to us.. 



1 Michel, Histoire de I' Art, 1905, Tome I. i. p. 258. 



2 Journal of Roman Studies, vol. i. part i., 1911, article by 

 E. Strong, p. 24. 



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