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SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS IN 1738.
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to the Piazza di Spagna. I took lodgings first in the Hotel
of the Three Kings (Tre Re), but afterwards removed to a
house in the same Piazza, which is immediately below the
residence Queen Christina used to occupy on the hill ; so
that I could converse easily from my lodgings with those who
were in that house. During the first few days I took a cursory
view of sundry places ; saw where the pope lives on the Monte
Cavallo during the summer; besides various squares, columns,
obelisks, and churches ; the Vatican, St. Peter’s Church, about
which I will report more in detail in what follows.
Ponte del Angelo [the angel’s bridge] or Pons Ælius is the
foremost bridge in Rome. Facing it, on the other side, is the
Castello del Angelo [the angel’s castle] , and thence it leads
to the Vatican and the Church of St. Peter. This bridge was
built by P. Ælius Hadrianus of wood, but badly, and so that
it could be taken down. One hundred and seventy persons,
mostly strangers, coming from the Vatican, were drowned there
at the jubilee in 1450, after which it was reconstructed and built
of stone on four arches. Its length is seventy paces, and its
breadth from ten to twelve. Clement VII adorned it in 1523
with two marble statues of Peter and Paul ; and Clement IX,
in 1669, with ten angels in marble, all of which together re
present the passion [ of Christ] ; The statues were executed
by several masters, but the designs were furnished by Bernini
[not Barbini] . From the same bridge may be seen on the
left three or four remains of the pons triumphalis, which was
crossed by all those who celebrated a triumph; the first, it is
supposed, was celebrated by Romulus, the last by Probus,
altogether three hundred and twenty-two.
September 29. I visited the Pantheon or Rotunda, which
was erected by M. Agrippa, fourteen years after the birth of
Christ. Some say it was dedicated to Cybele, the mother of
the gods ; others, that it was built for Jupiter, Mars, Venus,
and others ; some finally say that it was intended for all the
gods. Another building, however, seems to have been there
before ; as it is reported, that in the beginning there were two
porticoes ; that Agrippa made the one, put his name upon it,
and destroyed the other. It is supposed also by some that it
was Agrippa’s tomb. It is said that the statue of Hercules
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