3/38 Nothing would be done, it was understood, until the autumn sessions. The city had now become not only the centre of faith but, in a sense, a microcosm of it. It was divided into four huge quarters--Anglo-Saxon, Latin, Teutonic and Eastern--besides Trastevere, which was occupied almost entirely by Papal offices, seminaries, and schools. Anglo-Saxondom occupied the southwestern quarter, now entirely covered with houses, including the Aventine, the Celian and Testaccio. The Latins inhabited old Rome, between the Course and the river; the Teutons the northeastern quarter, bounded on the south by St.Laurence's Street; and the Easterns the remaining quarter, of which the centre was the Lateran. |