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CASAREGNANO Church of SS. Nicola and IlarioAt Casaregnano another example has been left to us by the inheritance of Farfa in the form of the Church of SS. Nicola and Ilario. Already present in the estate of the Benedictine monks in the IX century, very probably the old Church was demolished and rebuilt towards the XIV century.Of particular interest is the bell tower with wooden beams and the bell on which the initials of Ave Maria and the date MCCCL are etched in gothic lettering. Inside the church outstanding frescoes and canvasses can be admired; on the altar a wooden altar piece of 1620 is positioned portraying San Nicola with three golden balls on a plate which, traditions has it, symbolise the donations of money made to three poor girls to save them from prostitution. At the bottom of the same work the figure of the commissioner, a member of the Giordani family, appears. In the presbytery a recently restored fresco can be seen, a “Madonna with Child” dating from the middle of the 1500s. This work, which also features the person who commissioned it, Basilio Giordani, covers another fresco At the sides of the church there are two XVI century altars: the one on the left holds “The Mystery of the Rosary” executed in 1669, the year in which the brotherhood was founded at Casaregnano; in the one on the right a beautiful portrayal of “Sant’Emidio interceding for the souls of purgatory through Our Lady” can be admired. According to the art historian Furio Cappelli this work is attributable to Ludovico Trasi, both for reasons linked to the pictorial characteristics of the work as well as for a purely chronological fact which would make the work contemporary to the altar of the 1600s. Bibliography:
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