THE BRIDGE AND CASTLE OF ST. ANGELO, THE VATICAN, AND ST. PETER'S. Turn to the Mole which Hadrian rear'd on high, Imperial mimic of old Egypt's piles. BYRON. But thou, of temples old, or altars new, BYRON. THE view represented in the plate comprises the Bridge and Castle of St. Angelo, the Palace of the Vatican, and the Church of St. Peter's. The bridge of St. Angelo, which formerly bore the title of the Pons Ælius, or Hadriani, from the name of the emperor by whom it was built, crosses the Tiber opposite to the Moles Hadriani, to which it was designed as an avenue. The piers and some of the arches are ancient; but having given way in consequence of the crowd assembled on it during the jubilee of 1450, an accident by which upwards of 170 persons perished, it was renewed by Nicholas the Fifth, and was again repaired in 1668 by Clement the Ninth, who erected the balustrade, and placed upon it, with the assistance of Bernini, the ill-conceived statues of angels, which flutter over the water. The castle of St. Angelo, the fortress and the state prison of Rome, is constructed from the remains of the L |