"This church promises on the bright backdrop of Piazza Navona, but rather is itself an integral and fundamental. Its concave side, its high dome and slender, the two beautiful baroque bell towers that make up the frame one of the most complex art titpici Baroque ... The story of its construction is rather curious: the beginning Girolamo Rainaldi and his son Charles, but already in 1653 the pope, not satisfied, dismissed them and called their place the Borromini, with authentic strokes of genius , produced the concave facade, making gravitate above, apparently, the high mass of the dome, and profoundly changed the inside ... ... Going for Baroque sacristy you can go down in the basement where, among the remains of the building Roman find themselves in a suggestive shadows, ancient frescoes and mosaic floors ... ".
(A reading of the Churches of Rome and R. L. Zeppegno Tiles - Newton Compton Ed - 1975)
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