Santa Maria del Popolo


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Located between the Basso della Rovere and Costa Chapels, the monument of Stefano Desiderio, a patrician and lawyer from Bologna. Desiderio served for a long time in the Roman Curia. His tomb was erected by his heirs in 1638.

A small white marble memorial stele on the same pillar to the right was erected for Teresa Olivi Benvenuti, a woman from Chioggia and granddaughter of the naturalist, Giuseppe Olivi. She died in 1856 at the age of 40 years. Her delicate relief portrait in profile above the funerary inscription is set in a medaillon and delimited by a serpent.

The third monument on the same pillar is a memorial stele of Maria Anna de Magistris (1856).

(Photo borrowed from internet)
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