These temples were situated in the Forum Olitorium, the great vegetable market of Rome, and outside the Servian wall. The custodian shows a cell which he points out as the scene of the "Caritas Romana." Visitor! "beware, beware! he's fooling thee." This is not that Temple of Piety erected on the site of the house of the Roman matron, or, according to some authorities, on the site of the Decemviral Prisons; for Pliny and Solinus tell us that the sites of the temple and prison were occupied by the Theatre of Marcellus. According to Valerius Maximus (v. 4) and Pliny ("Natural History," vii. 36), it was a daughter who thus saved her mother's life, and "they were henceforth provided for by the state." Festus says it was her father. _Turn to the right, in coming out of the temple; a short distance on the right the Via di Ponte Rotto turns out to the right. A little way up on the right is_ THE HOUSE OF RIENZI. "The Roman of Rome's least mortal mind;" The friend of Petrarch and liberty, Who died for Rome and Italy. Rienzi! the patriotic Roman, Close by whose house doth wind The Tiber, subservient to the will of no man. It was built from the remains of one of those medieval towers used by the Romans as fortresses, and, as such, bore the name of the Torre di Monzone. It was demolished by Arlotto degli Stefaneschi, in the year 1313, in order to diminish the power of the Orsini, in whose possession it was. An inscription on the ruin states the founder to have been a certain Nicolas, the son of Crescentius and Theodora. Hence it has been supposed that the Crescentius here mentioned is identical with the celebrated consul who ruled over Rome A.D. 998; an opinion strengthened by the fact of his wife having really borne the name of Theodora. Rienzi is said to have been descended from them. Pope Leo XIII. was descended through his mother from Rienzi. OLD RHYMING VERSE ON THE HOUSE OF RIENZI. "First of the foremost, Nicolas, great from a low estate, Raised (_this_) to revive the glory of his fathers. There is placed the name of his father and mother, Crescentius and Theodora. This renowned roof, bore from (_a_) dear pledge: The father who displayed it assigned it to David." Another line says,-- "In fair places ever remember the grave." The neighbouring people call this ruin the Casa di Pilato, and the appellation of the Casa di Cola di Rienzi has been added since the last century. Rienzi died in 1354 A.D. _A step or two lead to_ THE PONTE ROTTO,