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AUGUSTUS J. C. HARE
The Ponte S. Angelo is the Pons Elius of Hadrian, built as an approach / to his mausoleum, and only intended for this, as another public bridge / existed close by, at the time of its construction. It is almost / entirely ancient, except the parapets. The statues of St. Peter and / St. Paul, at the extremity, were erected by Clement VII., in the place / of two chapels, in 1530, and the angels, by Clement IX., in 1688. The / pedestal of the third angel on the right is a relic of the siege of / Rome in 1849, and bears the impress of a cannon-ball.