11-21-2013, 01:13 PM
Quote:From what I studied the building was heavily damaged during the Renaissance by Papal Aristocarcy to build wonderful palaces in Rome ...
'Quod non fecerunt barbari fecerunt Barberini'
(Barberini is the noble family who saked the Colosseum ...)
O.K.So I take it as Colosseum was relatively intact till Renaissance times in its basic shape.This is why I would like to know what was its appearance in the sixth century: