Page:The Voyage Of Italy Or A Compleat Journey through Italy, The Second Part.pdf/436

 Following still my right hand, I came to the Arch of Titus: a Triumphal arch erected to him upon his victory over the Jews. Hence you see here engraven in mezzo rilievo the said Emperor in a Triumphant Chariot: and on the other, the Holy Candlestick of the temple of Hierusalem, the ark of the alliance, and the tables of the Law, which this Emperour brought with him after his taking of Hierusalem, to grace his Triumph. This is the most ancient Triumphal Arch in Rome, and it stood in the via Sacra which went under it.

Wheeling about the Campo Vaccino, still on my right hand, I came to the Church of Santa Francesca Romana, otherwise called Santa Maria Nuova. Here I saw the neat Tomb of that Saint in brass guilt, made at the cost of Pope Innocent the X. Heres also cut in white marble, and standing upon an altar the history of the Popes returning again to Rome from Avignon. I saw also here a rare sute of hangings belong-