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THE BRIDGE AND CASTLE OF ST. ANGELO,
THE VATICAN, AND ST. PETER’S.
Turn to the Mole which Hadrian rear’d on high,
Imperial mimic of old Egypt’s piles.
Byron.
But thou, of temples old, or altars new,
Standest alone—with nothing like to thee-
Worthiest of God, the holy and the true.
Byron.
The view represented in the plate comprises the
Bridge and Castle of St. Angelo, the Palace of the Vati-
can, and the Church of St. Peter’s.
The bridge of St. Angelo, which formerly bore the
title of the Pons 2Elius, or Hadriani, from the name of
the emperor by whom it was built, crosses the Tiber
opposite to the Moles Hadriani, to which it was designed
as an avenue. The piers and some of the arches are an-
cient ; but having given w?ay in consequence of the crowd
assembled on it during the jubilee of 1450, an accident
by which upwards of 170 persons perished, it was re-
newed by Nicholas the Fifth, and was again repaired in
1668 by Clement the Ninth, who erected the balustrade,
and placed upon it, with the assistance of Bernini, the
ill-conceived statues of angels, which flutter over the
water.
The castle of St. Angelo, the fortress and the state
prison of Rome, is constructed from the remains of the
THE VATICAN, AND ST. PETER’S.
Turn to the Mole which Hadrian rear’d on high,
Imperial mimic of old Egypt’s piles.
Byron.
But thou, of temples old, or altars new,
Standest alone—with nothing like to thee-
Worthiest of God, the holy and the true.
Byron.
The view represented in the plate comprises the
Bridge and Castle of St. Angelo, the Palace of the Vati-
can, and the Church of St. Peter’s.
The bridge of St. Angelo, which formerly bore the
title of the Pons 2Elius, or Hadriani, from the name of
the emperor by whom it was built, crosses the Tiber
opposite to the Moles Hadriani, to which it was designed
as an avenue. The piers and some of the arches are an-
cient ; but having given w?ay in consequence of the crowd
assembled on it during the jubilee of 1450, an accident
by which upwards of 170 persons perished, it was re-
newed by Nicholas the Fifth, and was again repaired in
1668 by Clement the Ninth, who erected the balustrade,
and placed upon it, with the assistance of Bernini, the
ill-conceived statues of angels, which flutter over the
water.
The castle of St. Angelo, the fortress and the state
prison of Rome, is constructed from the remains of the