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Updated: June 15, 2025
Coming now to the little hall which is beside the hall just described, and which is above the Hall of Spring, in the vaulting, which is adorned with a vast and rich decoration in stucco and gold, in the recess in the centre, there is the Coronation of Pope Paul III, with four spaces that form a cruciform inscription, with these words: PAULUS III FARNESIUS, PONTIFEX MAXIMUS, DEO ET HOMINIBUS APPROBANTIBUS, SACRA TIARA SOLEMNI RITU CORONATUR, ANNO SALUTIS 1534, III NON. NOVEMB.
When the Medici fled from Florence in 1494, their palace was sacked; the new republic took possession of Donatello's "Judith," and placed it on a pedestal before the gate of the Palazzo Vecchio, with this inscription, ominous to would-be despots: Exemplum salutis publicae cives posuere. MCCCCXCV. It now stands near Cellini's "Perseus" under the Loggia de' Lanzi.
'Courage then, cries the knight, we may yet be forgiven, Or at worst buy the bishop's reversion in heaven; Our frequent escapes in this world show how true 't is That gold is the only Elixir Salutis. Derry down, Derry down.
Boniface VIII, when the clouds were already gathering, issued the famous Bull 'Unam sanctam, in which he said: 'Subesse Romano pontifici omnes humanas creaturas declaramus, definimus, et pronuntiamus omnino esse de necessitate salutis. The claim is logical.
To the rustic stratum possibly belongs also the augurium salutis populi, though later it was a yearly act celebrated whenever the Roman army was not at war and so became connected with the shutting of the temple of Ianus. The state greatly developed and organised the whole system of auguries and auspices.
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