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Altra veduta di Ripa grande d`alla parte oposta

This is less a view of the Port of Ripa Grande than it is of the buildings around it and of the Aventine hill on the opposite shore. On the left the long, low papal granary and the double-arched Arsenale (6) (shown highlighted on the Nolli map), the latter built shortly before 1720, stand outside the Baroque walls, built a century earlier under Urban VIII Barberini (1623-1644). Just inside the walls where they terminate at the river is the Dogana Grande (7) (Large Customs House) Plate 97, which served the port. Beyond it is the large complex of the Ospizio di S. Michele (4) which includes the Carcere per le Donne (5) (women's prison). Immediately to the left of S. Michele Vasi strangely misplaces the church of S. Luca e Martina (3) which is actually located at the Roman Forum and would be impossible to see from this viewpoint. On the right side of the print the farm buildings of the Vigna Cesarini on the Testaccio plain stand out against the steep side of the Aventine hill which is topped by the Priorato de' Cavalieri Gerosolomitani (1) Priory of the Knights of Malta, Plate 96. To the right of the Priory building is the church of S. Maria del Priorato as it looked before Piranesi completely remodeled it in 1764-66. The bell-tower at the right belongs to the church of S. Alessio, Plates 96, 129).