094a.

Ponte Rotto

Part of an extensive sequence of four prints relating to the island (the others: Plates 91, 92, 93), this print is nearly the opposite view of Plate 93. It is taken from a point on the east bank almost level with the downstream tip of the island, which appears in the right foreground. Apart from the Ponte Rotto itself, three elements from the other view reappear: the floating grain mill (5) on the left, the church of S. Salvatore a Ponte Rotto (3) which Vasi calls S. Salvatore in Trastevere, and the riverside buildings near that church. Not often depicted in prints of the city are the large and ungainly fienili (4) (hay barns) which are also highlighted in plan by Nolli on the south edge of Piazza della Bocca della Verità. The Aventine hill appears in the distance above the bridge, topped by two churches: S. Sabina (1) Plate 129 and S. Alessio (2). Just below and to the left of S. Sabina are the battlemented walls of the Savelli stronghold which dominated that quarter of town in the 13th century.