Summary

Acquapendente is a city and comune in the province of Viterbo, in Lazio (Italy).

John Evelyn stayed at the post-house  at Acquapendente and describes the town:

Here we pass a stone bridge, built by Pope Gregory XIV., and thence immediately to Acquapendente, a town situated on a very ragged rock, down which precipitates an entire river (which gives it the denomination5, with a most horrid roaring noise. We lay at the posthouse, on which is this inscription:

L’Insegna della Posta, é posta a posta.
In questa posta, fin che habbia à sua posta
Ogn’ un Cavallo a Vetturi in Posta.

Before it was dark, we went to see the Monastery of the Franciscans, famous for six learned Popes, and sundry other great scholars, especially the renowned physician and anatomist, Fabricius de Acquapendente, who was bred and born there.7

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Referring entries


Further reading

  • Wikipedia entry on

Sources

  • Diary,
  • Wikipedia.