SS. COSMA E DAMIANO DE PINEA A ROMA: TRACCE DI UNA CHIESA SCOMPARSA DALLA LETTURA DI DUE ISCRIZIONI BASSOMEDIEVALI

Abstract

In L. Bufalini’s map of Rome (1551), near piazza della Pigna (south of the Pantheon and north of Piazza
Venezia), the existence of a church that has now disappeared is known from late medieval catalogues:
Ss. Cosma and Damiano de Pinea. Archaeologically, nothing has been preserved of the building and it is
difficult to define the origins of this church; however, through the reading of a late-medieval inscription,
identified by E. Michon at the beginning of the XX century, and through two inscriptions transcribed by
A. Ciacconio (a XVI century antiquarian), paper will try to show new origins traces of a now lost church.