58. Ponte dell' Angelo, Venice, p.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
The most picturesque and melancholy sight was along the river front, where to head off the enemy's approach the French had been obliged to blow up those ancient bridges, landmarks of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, for, like the Ponte Vecchio at Florence, they were lined with houses and mills, whose pointed roofs and apparent beams had weathered nearly five hundred years!
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
They proceeded thus in silence towards the two black cliffs in the noisy ravine, and leaving the main road, which turns to cross the Anio by the Ponte di San Mauro, took the mule-path leading to the convents, which winds up to the cliff on the left.
"The Saint"
Antonio Fogazzaro Commentator: William Roscoe Thayer