Editing Pope Clement XII (section)

===Art and architecture===
[[File:Pope Clement XII bust.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Bust of Clement XII by [[Edme Bouchardon]]]]
A competition for the majestic façade of the [[Basilica of Saint John Lateran]] was won by architect [[Alessandro Galilei]]. The façade he designed is perhaps more palatial than ecclesiastic, and was finished by 1735. Clement XII erected in that ancient basilica a magnificent chapel dedicated to his 14th-century kinsman, St. [[Andrew Corsini]]. He restored the [[Arch of Constantine]] and built the [[Palazzo della Consulta]] on the [[Quirinal Hill]]. He purchased from Cardinal [[Alessandro Albani]] for 60,000 scudi a famous collection of statues, inscriptions, etc., and opened it to the public as the [[Capitoline Museums]]. He paved the streets of Rome and the roads leading from the city and widened the [[Via del Corso]]. He began the triumphant Baroque [[Trevi Fountain]], one of the noted ornaments of Rome. Under his reign, a port was built at [[Ancona]], with a highway that gave easy access to the interior. He drained the malarial marshes of the Chiana near [[Lake Trasimeno]].The pope founded in 1732 the Italo-Albanian College Library of [[San Demetrio Corone]] in [[Calabria]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337186795|title=De Rose, Conforti}}</ref><ref name=Loughlin/>