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Updated: June 25, 2025
The town was part of the feud of S. Apollinare, and was destroyed in 1330 by the soldiers of the Patriarch Pagano della Torre. The castle belonged first to the Castropola, then to the Morosini, and finally to the Grimani. Low buildings used as harness and store-rooms, &c., still remain against the walls inside, but the stair to the suite of principal rooms is ruinous.
The churches of Ravenna S. Vitale, S. Apollinare, and the rest are too well known, and have been too often described by enthusiastic antiquaries, to need a detailed notice in this place. Every one is aware that the ecclesiastical customs and architecture of the early Church can be studied in greater perfection here than elsewhere.
Its treasures and marbles Charlemagne carried off to Germany. We drove three miles beyond the city, to the Church of St. Apollinare in Classe, a lonely edifice in a waste of marsh, a grand old basilica, a purer specimen of Christian art than Rome or any other Italian town can boast.
"The child of Jacopo and Paolina Foscarelli," said the monk, in the same dreamy tone, and pressing his thin emaciated hands before his eyes as he spoke; "and you have come here to find me?" "Nay, father, not to find you. I knew not that the padre guardiano of St. Apollinare was a Venetian. I came only to copy these pictures for my employer." "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful are the ways of God!
Apollinare or whether they only know that she left the city by that gate early in the morning, I can't tell; but it is sure to be found out that she did really see us, the more so, that she will say so to the first person who asks her" the poor innocent darling.
But when examined as to her disposal of herself after leaving the church of Apollinare as to her motives for changing her purpose, if it were true, as she stated, that she did change her purpose of entering the Pineta she became embarrassed and failed to give any satisfactory reply.
We hear vaguely of a Basilica of Hercules which was to be adorned with a mosaic, though what this may have been we do not know; but we still have the magnificent Arian church of S. Apollinare, which he called S. Martin de Coelo Aureo because of its beautiful gilded roof; and less perfectly there remains to us the Arian church he built, called then S. Theodore and now S. Spirito, and the Arian baptistery beside it; the ruin, known as his palace, and his mighty tomb.
And then they had borrowed a door from the farm near St. Apollinare, and had brought the body here, and that was all they knew about it. "Had they seen any other person in the forest that morning?" "Not a soul; and they had been in that part of the Pineta, or at least at no great distance, all the morning from sunrise."
Those marvellous figures that appear in ghostly procession upon the walls of S. Apollinare here in Ravenna are really indescribable, they must be seen if the lovely significance of their beauty is to be understood. What can one say of them? Upon the Epistle side we see as it were a procession of twenty-five figures all in white with palms in the right hands and crowns in their left.
"But," remarked the Procuratore, "if it is in your power to do that, why did you not give the necessary information to the Commissary of Police when you were, on several occasions, examined at St. Apollinare?" "Signori miei," said the old man, addressing himself to the court in general, "it is no affair of mine to meddle with the administration of human justice.
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