[39] Dyer's City of Rome, p. 379.
[40] R, right; L, left.
[41] The statue of Leo X. is interesting as having been erected to this popular art-loving pope in his lifetime. It is inscribed—"Optimi liberalissimique pontificis memoriæ."
[42] Plin. Nat Hist xxix. 14, I; Plut. Fort. Rom. 12.
[43] Hist. Rom. i. 382.
[44] The "Dies Iræ," by Tommaso di Celano, of the fourteenth century.
[45] "Per gradus qui sunt super Calpurnium fornicem."
[46] Paradiso, canto xii.
[47] Hist. Rome.
[48] "Est locus in carcere quod Tullianum appellatur, ubi paululum descenderis ad lævam, circiter duodecim pedes humi depressus. Eum muniunt undique parietes, atque insuper camera lapideis fornicibus vincta; sed incultu, tenebris, odore fœda. atque terribilis ejus facies."—Sall. Catil. lv.