Arcispedale di Santo Spirito in Saxia

Italian Wikipedia traces the site to the Schola Saxonum founded by Ine, king of Wessex, at the beginning of the eighth century, and to a xenodochium founded in 794 by Offa of Mercia; Innocent III made it a hospital in 1198, the complex designed by Marchionne Aretino. Its long ward, the Corsia Sistina, was built for Sixtus IV: 120 metres by 12, facing Borgo Santo Spirito, divided under an octagonal tower by a tiburio into the Braccio di sotto and the Braccio di sopra. The altar at the centre of the tiburio is one that, in the source's own hedged phrasing, «dovrebbe essere» a work of Palladio in Rome — the attribution is hedged there and stays hedged here. The portale del Paradiso is attributed to Andrea Bregno, and beside it is the ruota degli esposti, the foundling wheel. A fresco cycle of more than fifty scenes was painted in 1478.