Identifier: museumofclassical00falk (find matches)
Title: The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896 Wood, J. E Davies, Benjamin Rees
Subjects: Classical antiquities Archaeology
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ly the Ponte della pietra,the construction is of marble; and in the old plan of Lobia itbears the title of Pons Marmoreiis ; and it would seem that thisappellation was given to it, not on account of its masonry, butbecause it was ornamented with a marble colonnade, clearlyshown in the plan of Lobia, and which was probably that builtby Theodoric, for communication with his palace. Liutprand(ii, 1) calls it a marble bridge of wonderful workmanship, andprodigious magnitude. The bridge was broken in 1512, andrestored by Fra Giocondo in 1521.:(: Both bridges were orna-mented with beautiful bas-reliefs.§ The southern bridge wascalled Militare and Rotto, though the more general name wasthe Pons _^Emilius, from its being in a line with the Stradadel Corso. It communicated with the church of S* Libera,;; or * Maffei, iii, 64. f Liv., x, 2. X Dd Persico, Verona e la sua Provincia. 4to., Ver., 1838. § Sarayna, Deir origine, etc. di Ver., p. 9. II Id. Girol. Dalla Cortc, Llsloria di Ver., 1596.
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THEATRE AND NAUMACHIA OF VERONA. 193 the monastery of the Redentore,* or the church of S. Faustino,-)-or the hospital of S. Apollonio, now S* Maria in Organo.iJ:These churches are all close together, (See the plan of Veronain Biancolini, Dei Vescovi di Verona^ 1757; tav. v, p. 56.) Inthe plan of the theatre by Cristofali (see p. 180), (a) to (b) indi-cates the site of the convent and cloister of S. Bartolomeo ; (c)the church of SS. Siro and Libera; and (d) the church of theRedentore. The bridge was destroyed, in 1153,§ by an inundation of theAdige; but several writers concur in stating that vestiges ofthis bridge might be seen at either extremity, in their time.;;Maffei, as we have seen, testifies to the masses of ruin appear-ing in the water like so many.rocks.^ Some of these havesince been removed, in order to clear the bed of the river.**One author, even so late as 1830,-;j* affirms that some of thepiles might be perceived when the water is low, and that manystones were dug up fro

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