A personal view by Kenneth Clark
'Papal Rome-the Rome of Sixtus V-is the most grandiose piece of town planning ever attempted. The amazing thing is that it was done only a generation after Rome had been-as it seemed-completely humiliated, almost wiped off the map.'
Sir Kenneth Clark is in the Rome of the Counter-Reformation-the Rome of Michelangelo and of Bernini. The Catholic Church in its fight against the Protestant north developed a new splendour symbolised by the glory of St. Peter's.
Shown on Sunday
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The narrative of this programme is printed in The Listener of April 10
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