Saint Peter's Square (Italian: Piazza San Pietro, ) is located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, the papal enclave within Rome (the Piazza borders to the East the rione of Borgo).
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“Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate:
His keys were rusty, and the lock was dull,”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
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The nose of Saint like Bag-pipe drone,
And speaks through hollow empty Soul,
As through a Trunk, or whisp’ring hole,
Such language as no mortal Ear
But spiritual Eve-droppers can hear.”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)
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—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)