Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pace

This guide to the Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pace in Rome opens with a violent legend from 1480, a stone thrown at a roadside image of the Virgin and the pope who came to see the damage himself. It traces how that led Sixtus IV to build a new church on the spot, and how banker Agostino Chigi later hired Raphael to fresco four Sibyls above its first chapel. Listen for the peace the church's name was meant to invoke amid Rome's wars.