Where art and antiquity are so abundant as in Rome, the Bambino incident is probably what the reader, when he has visited the Church of ara Coeli will chiefly remember, and I will not pretend to be any better than the reader, though I will say that I have a persistent sense of something important about the roof; and there are the Pinturrichio frescos, which an old Sienese like me must have the taste for.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
There would be the sense, rather than the vision, of the white shoulders of Castor and Pollux beside their steeds above the dark-green garden spaces on either hand; there would be the front of the Church of ara Coeli visible beyond the insignificance of Rienzi's monument; and filling in the other end of the piazza which Michelangelo imagined, and not the Romans knew, there would be the palace of the senator, to which the mayor and the common council of modern Rome now mount by a double stairway, and presumably meet at the top in proceeding to their municipal labors.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
My colleague the consul at Florence had come for a visit to Rome, and had taken a cab to make the rounds of the sights, and, making his visit to the church of ara Coeli, he of course left the cab at the foot of the stairs.
"The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I"
William James Stillman