The country of The ring and the book . oad wasnot unpicturesque. On one side of it now, for somedistance, is a bare yellow cliff hung with bushes, cappedby cypresses and riddled with romantic-looking caves,some of which are still inhabited (Plate 27). A little way along the road is an old and handsomefountain with a water trough. It is in the classicalstyle, and lacks nothing in the way of marble tabletand inscription (Plate 28). I cannot help thinking thatat this fountain Guido and his followers must havestayed to quench their thirst on the night of January2nd. It is a long run from the Via V
The country of The ring and the book . oad wasnot unpicturesque. On one side of it now, for somedistance, is a bare yellow cliff hung with bushes, cappedby cypresses and riddled with romantic-looking caves,some of which are still inhabited (Plate 27). A little way along the road is an old and handsomefountain with a water trough. It is in the classicalstyle, and lacks nothing in the way of marble tabletand inscription (Plate 28). I cannot help thinking thatat this fountain Guido and his followers must havestayed to quench their thirst on the night of January2nd. It is a long run from the Via Vittoria, andmurdering is hot work. This is the first water theywould have come upon in their flight, for they wouldnever have dared to halt in the Piazza del Popolowith the hue and cry resounding in the alarmed streetsbehind them. The Ponte Milvio, or Ponte Molle, is a handsome * See for example the Plan of Rome given in Scotos Intinerario cTItalia, published in Padua in 1670. f La Corte e la Societa Romana nei XVIII e XIX secoli. 152. The Inn at Merluzza grey bridge, with an imposing gateway of stone at thenorth end which was not in existence in Guidos first bridge erected upon this spot was built in theyear 109 Some traces of the old foundations arestill to be seen, but the bridge took its present formin 1805. Old prints, however, show that the PonteMilvio at the end of the seventeenth century was butlittle different from the present structure (see Plates 29and 30). On the city side of the bridge is the queer littleChapel of Saint Andrew, built in 1462 to commemoratean occasion when the Pope, the cardinals, the priestsand monks of every degree, together with the wholepopulation of Rome, came to the foot of the bridgein solemn procession to receive a gift to the present was nothing more than a mans head—a brown, shrivelled, mummified thing, in a box;but it was a part of no less a person than SaintAndrew, and it had reached Rome after very vividadventur
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