1807/12 begun by Giuseppe Valadier (1762/1839)
Continued by Virginio Vespignani (1808/82) who also designed the great SQUARE PORTICO in 1880
It was enlarged until 1960
The name derives from the Verani family, an ancient Roman patrician family who used to own this area in the Republican period
Statues 1874/78 "Meditation" and "Charity" by Francesco Fabj-Altini (1830/1906), "Hope" by Stefano Galletti (1832/1905) pupil of Pietro Tenerani and "Silence" by Giuseppe Blasetti (1826/1908)
Among the monuments:
"Painter Tommaso Minardi" 1876 by Luigi Fontana (1827/1908)
"General Giacomo Medici" 1884 by Giulio Monteverde (1837/1917)
"Erminia Fuà Fusinato" 1876 by Stefano Galletti
On the small hill known as PINCETTO
"Monument to the pontifical soldiers fallen during the Mentana battle against the Italian army" by Vincenzo Luccardi (1808/76)
"Monument to the navy soldiers of the Sebastiano Veniero submarine" 1930 by Publio Morbiducci (1889/1963)
"Monument to the Roman soldier fallen during the First World War in the years 1915/18" 1922/31 by Raffaele De Vico (1881/1969)
CHAPEL OF St. MARY OF MERCY
Built in 1859
"Purgatory's souls" by Tommaso Minardi (1787/1871)
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