ABSTRACT
Located on the façade of a house in the fifth rione (district) of Rome, called Ponte, is an inscription installed in 1512 by the builders Domenico Massimo and Girolamo Pico for the building magistrates of the city (maestri di strada). Translated from the Latin, the inscription reads as follows:
Julius II Pontifex Optimus Maximus having liberated Italy and enlarged the dominions of the Roman church embellished the city of Rome which at the time was more like a squatter's settlement than a properly planned city. 1
