Piale, Luigi; Wyndham, R. C. [Bearb.]: Rome seen in a week: being a hand-book to Rome and its environs : containing a description of the Roman antiquities, galleries, museums, churches, catacombs and general information necessary to the touristh (Rome: Luigi Piale, 1902)

SEVENTH DAI

FROM THE BRIDGE OF FABRICIUS
TO THE BRIDGE OF ST. ANGELO

Ponte Quattro Capi or Bridge of Fabricius. — Island of St. Bar-
tolomeo. — Ponte Graziano. — St. Cecilia. — St. Maria
dell'Orto. — Hospital for Old People. — Porta Portese. —
Trastevere Railway Station. — St. Francesco a Ripa. —
St. Maria in Trastevere. — St. Grisogono. — The Janicu-
lum. — St Pietro in Montorio. — Pauline Fountain. — Porta
St. Pancrazio. — Villa Pamphili-Doria. — Church and Cata-
combs of St. Pancras. — Corsini Palace and Gallery. — Far-
nesina. — Church of. St. Onofrio. — Ponte Sisto. — Church
of the Trinitd del Pellegrini. — St. Maria in Monticelli. —
Palazzo della Cancelleria. — Farnese Palace. — Spada Pa-
lace. - St. Maria in Monserrato — Church of the Florentines.
Ponte Quattro Capi or Fabricio, construc-
ted in the year 690 of Rome, connects the city with
the island of the Tiber; on which is the
Church of S. Bartolomeo all' Isola, built
upon the ruins of a temple of Esculapius. It is of very
early date, and has been several times restored; the
last time in 1863, when the Franciscan Friars to whom
it belongs decorated it again, under the direction of
Padre Goffredo di Sardegna, a monk of that order.
It has three aisles with 14 columns, which are sup-
posed to have belonged to the temple of Esculapius.
The roof is decorated with paintings by the said Padre
Goffredo, and the middle aisle is richly ornamented.
The picture in the second chapel to the right is by
Ant. Caracci. Upon the altar of the next chapel is a