[34] "Everything," he says, "seemed darkened and full of tears; all the servants wept, and the doors and the rooms, and every house of the other members of the Baglioni were all like the palls of the dead. And throughout the city there was no soul who played or sang; and few there were who smiled." [35] See Archivio Storico, vol. xvi. part ii. page 437. [36] John Addington Symonds' "Sketches in Italy," p. 83. [37] John Addington Symonds, "Life of Michelangelo," vol. i. p. 184-185. [38] The name is still common in Perugia and owned by some of the best families in the place, and the splendid villas near Bettona, Torgiano, and Bastia are all inhabited by people of the mighty name of Baglioni. [39] By the treaty concluded with Martin V. (1424) after Fortebraccio's death, Perugia was absolved from every tax not in force during the time of Boniface IX., and Paul had accepted this treaty on his accession. [40] The place where this great crucifix stood (the cross itself is hidden by a window) can still be seen on the south side of the Duomo, and every night a lamp is burned above it in commemoration of that fantastic ceremony. How little probably does the _custode_, who strikes the match, guess for what purpose he does so. No doubt he imagines that he is lighting up to make the street below more clear for passers-by. [41] This immense and extraordinary building has been fully described in another place (see chap. vi.). Plate, p. 77, and map will explain how powerful was the position that it held, and how well calculated it was to strike terror into the minds of the citizens. But according to one authority the Latin inscription quoted above was never written on its walls. [42] See "Archivio Storico Italiano," vol. xvi., part ii. p. 443. [43] The topographical position of Perugia distinguished her in very early times. "It is believed," says Mariotti, "that the _Via Cassia_, which led from Rome to Chiusi, passed by Perugia, or rather the _Via Vajentana_, which was one of the ancient military roads passing through Tuscany. Other writers have placed Perugia on the _Via Aurelia_. She had beside the principal military roads, several others which served her for communication with the neighbouring Etruscan cities, and it is most likely that modern roads leading to Chiusi, Orvieto, Gubbio, &c., preserve many parts of the old roads."--_See Mariotti_, vol. i. p. 9. [44] Even after the Perugians had ceased to fight among themselves, their unhappy churches and palaces were battered about. "That wind of the desert," says Bonazzi, "that simoom of Pontifical dominion did not pass over our city in vain." Paul III., in building his fortress, did infinite damage to the south of the old town; and the work of destruction, as far as the gems of painting go, was completed by Napoleon Bonaparte, whose raids among the masterpieces of Perugia were quite imperial in their extravagance.