[Footnote AE: The following barbarous distich is sometimes inscribed on the arms of the three leagues.

The following distich shows what each forbodes:'One sorrow, two mirth, three a wedding, four death.'

Over the western door-way is a mosaic of the Virgin with the following leonine and loyal distich beneath it: "Sponsa suae prolis, O Stella puerpera Solis, Pro cunctis ora, sed plus pro rege labora!" There is an ample square cloister, with twenty-seven pairs of columns on each side, once richly decorated in mosaics like those of San Giovanni Laterano and San Paolo at Rome, but even more dilapidated than either of these latter.