ghettarello

Updated: June 12, 2025

After having been immured so long in such disagreeable physical darkness appropriate emblem of the deeds of horror committed in it we were truly glad to catch at last a faint glimmer of daylight shimmering into the uppermost passage, and to emerge into the open sunshine, from beneath a house at the farther end of the Vicolo del Ghettarello.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood

For a long time these vaults have been used as cellars under a row of tall squalid-looking houses built over them between the Via di Marforio and the Vicolo del Ghettarello; and the sense of smell gives convincing proof that where prisoners of state used to be confined, provisions of wine, cheese, and oil have been stored.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood