The next side wall niche contains a neo-Classical memorial to Antonio Maria Traversi (1842). He was the titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople at the court of Pope Gregory XVI, but he was never a cardinal. He was extremely erudite in the arts and the sciences of the time, and the pope commissioned the memorial. As well as a bust, it has a tablet showing an allegorical figure of Religion between instruments associated especially with physics and astronomy. The monument was made by Giuseppe de Fabris.
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