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The Later Fortifications.
[chap. ii.
outside of the old wall of Leo IV., and for that reason is fortified
with machicoulis. It is mentioned by that name in the fifteenth
century.
6. Porta Pertusa is a name given to a gate pierced through the
wall of Leo at the western angle, and retained in the modern wall,
which almost joins the old one at this point. This name is men-
tioned in 1481.
7. Porta Fabbrica was the gate made for the workmen of
S. Peter’s, on the south side, and the name is retained in the
modern wall.
8. Porta Cavalleggieri, from some cavalry barracks established
near it by Pius IV., after the return of the Popes from Avignon.
It is on the south side, between the Porta di S. Spirito and the Porta
della Fabbrica. It is mentioned in 1481. This was also called
Porta Turrioni or Torrioni, from the great tower by the side of it.
9. Porta S. Spirito is the name still retained for the gate near
the great hospital so called, on the bank of the Tiber in the Leonine
city. It was also called Porta delli Nibbii in the fifteenth century,
when Ladislaus, King of Naples, went out by that gate in 1409 on
his way to Viterbo1.
Modern Fortifications.
The modern fortifications made under Pope Urban VIII. have
joined the Vatican and the Regio of the Trastevere in one large
enceinte. As will be seen by the map, they took the most westerly
point [the Gate of S. Pancrazio] of the Transtiberine Regio, and then
followed the ridge of hills along which the old Via Aurelia passed
till they met the Leonine wall, which, as has been said, they followed
for a short distance on the southern side, but on the northern side
the walls have taken a much larger sweep, so as to include the
gardens of the Vatican as well as the Mausoleum of Hadrian1".
1 Diarium Romanum, apud Murator. Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, vol. xxiv.
col. 999, D.
“ See the Appendix to this Section.
The Later Fortifications.
[chap. ii.
outside of the old wall of Leo IV., and for that reason is fortified
with machicoulis. It is mentioned by that name in the fifteenth
century.
6. Porta Pertusa is a name given to a gate pierced through the
wall of Leo at the western angle, and retained in the modern wall,
which almost joins the old one at this point. This name is men-
tioned in 1481.
7. Porta Fabbrica was the gate made for the workmen of
S. Peter’s, on the south side, and the name is retained in the
modern wall.
8. Porta Cavalleggieri, from some cavalry barracks established
near it by Pius IV., after the return of the Popes from Avignon.
It is on the south side, between the Porta di S. Spirito and the Porta
della Fabbrica. It is mentioned in 1481. This was also called
Porta Turrioni or Torrioni, from the great tower by the side of it.
9. Porta S. Spirito is the name still retained for the gate near
the great hospital so called, on the bank of the Tiber in the Leonine
city. It was also called Porta delli Nibbii in the fifteenth century,
when Ladislaus, King of Naples, went out by that gate in 1409 on
his way to Viterbo1.
Modern Fortifications.
The modern fortifications made under Pope Urban VIII. have
joined the Vatican and the Regio of the Trastevere in one large
enceinte. As will be seen by the map, they took the most westerly
point [the Gate of S. Pancrazio] of the Transtiberine Regio, and then
followed the ridge of hills along which the old Via Aurelia passed
till they met the Leonine wall, which, as has been said, they followed
for a short distance on the southern side, but on the northern side
the walls have taken a much larger sweep, so as to include the
gardens of the Vatican as well as the Mausoleum of Hadrian1".
1 Diarium Romanum, apud Murator. Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, vol. xxiv.
col. 999, D.
“ See the Appendix to this Section.