San Girolamo dell'Arcoveggio is a

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parish church located on Via Dell'Arcoveggio in

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, Italy.

History

The church is dedicated to Saint Jerome. The church was first erected in 1338 in the neighborhood of Arcoveggio, so called due to an ancient arch remaining from a Roman bridge that spanned the

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river. In 1567, cardinal

Gabriele Paleotti Gabriele Paleotti (4 October 1522 – 22 July 1597) was an Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Bologna. He was a significant figure in, and source about, the later sessions of the Council of Trent, and much later a candidate for the papacy in 1590 ...

converts this into a parish church refurbishing the church in neoclassic style. The bell tower dates to 1880. An inventory from 1844 noted a painting in the portal of St Jerome. The interior contained altarpieces by il Mastellatta and Ubaldo Gandolfi.Le chiese parrocchiali della diocesi di Bologna, ritratte e descritte
Volume 1, Enrico Corty e Compagno, Tipografia Sant'Tomasso d'Aquino, 1844, page 73.

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