Rome of 1497 was divided for purposes of government into fourteen Regions (Rioni) ruled by captains (caporioni) under a prior. The Vicechancellor’s palace on Banchi Vecchi is in the Region called Ponte, which extends from the church of San Giovanni de’ Fiorentini to the Region called Santangelo after the church of that dedication in the Fishmarket (Pescheria). Now this Region of Ponte was inhabited chiefly by the Orsini faction; as the region of Trevi and the Region of Ripa were inhabited by the Colonna and Savelli factions respectively. In this Region of Ponte lived also Jews: it was the quarter of the bankers and the money-changers, as well as of the prisons, public and private torture-chambers, (no evidence was taken from commoners except under torture,) all under the official protection of the House of Orsini. Here is Cord Lane (Vicolo della Corda), where the ordinary Question or Torture of the Cord[37] was applied. Here is Old Pillory Square, (Piazza della Berlèna Vecchia.) Here is Executioner Lane, (Vicolo dello Mastro.) And here were four Orsini fortresses, Monte Giordano, Tor Millina, Tor Sanguigna, and Torre di Nona. The Region of Santangelo, also, almost exclusively was inhabited by Jews under the protection of Orsini who held yet another palace-fortress here in the Theatre of Marcellus, (formerly the stronghold of the great mediæval Jewish House of Pierleoni,) near by the site on which the Ghetto was built in 1556 under the Lord Paul P.P. IV, and abolished in 1890 under the Lord Leo P.P. XIII. These topographical facts appear to point in one direction. A conclusion may be reached by the following degrees. (α) The Duke of Gandia took eleven (or fourteen) wounds. (β) His pouch with its precious jewels was intact. (γ) He had parted from Cardinal Cesare before witnesses in Banchi Vecchi. (δ) He said that he was going to amuse himself. (ε) He went towards the Jews’ Quarter. (ζ) Cardinal Cesare returned to the Vatican. (η) Banchi Vecchi is in Ponte, the Region of Jews and of Orsini. (θ) The Jews’ Quarter _stricte dicte_ was in Santangelo, a Region also dominated by Orsini. (ι) The Orsini were in mortal strife with the Lord Alexander P.P. VI, Who had visited them with appalling disaster, Who was likely to cause them infinite loss of life and spoil in the near future, Whose favourite son, heir, _and military right hand_, was the Duke of Gandia. (κ) It was Orsini who started the rumour, eight months later, that Cardinal Cesare (of whom Orsini went in horrid fear by reason of his exploits in the Romagna) had murdered the Duke of Gandia.