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Title: Guide to Italy and Sicily
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macmillan & Co
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Publisher: London, MacMillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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es,erected by Pompey (?), and also ofa colonnade and hall, probably usedas a corn exchange. It was admir-ably restored in 1899. The 12thcent, campanile is a fine specimen.It has fine old columns, handsomeambones, a very beautiful pavementof Cosmatesque mosaic, and anancient crypt. In the Sacristy is acurious 8th cent, mosaic from theold Church of St. Peters. In thevestibule is a huge mask of stone,the figure-head probably of a drainor fountain, from which the Piazzatakes its name of Bocca della Veritd.The mediaeval Romans placed theirhands in the mouth of the maskwhen taking an oath, the mouthbeing supposed to shut if they sworefalsely. Close by is the circular Templeof Portunus (?) (wrongly calledVesta), converted into the Churchof S. Maria del Sole. It wassurrounded originally with a colon-nade of twenty fluted pillars of theCorinthian order and of Parianmarble, one of which has perished ;the cornice also and the ancientroof have shared the same fate.The walls are composed of blocks
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To face page 218. London: Macmillan & Co., Ld. lker&Cockerellsc. GUIDE TO ITALY Rome—V. The Aventine 227 of Parian marble, neatly fitted to-gether, in winch respect it wasalmost unique in Rome. Further on is the so-called Templeof Fortune, Mater Matuta (?),surrounded by Ionic pilasters, andalso converted into a church inhonour of S. Maria Egiziaca. Beyond it is the House of Cres-centius, misnamed that of Rienzi,with a number of marble fragmentsbuilt into the wall. It is the oldestspecimen of a mediaeval dwelling-house in Rome, and is also knownas the House of Pilate, because itwas the starting-point of a Via,Cruris, which ended at MonteTestaccio (p. 280). The bridge over the Tiber at thispoint is called the Ponte Palatino.A fragment of the Pons Aemilius,or Ponte Rotto, a previous bridge,may be seen in the river, threearches of which were carried awayby an inundation in 1598, and twoothers were removed in the eighties.On the other side of the presentbridge is the conspicuous

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