VIII/1 inscription
           limestone, 1122
           cm 19 x 34 x 11

It has nine fan-shaped rows written width wise.
The capital letters are accurately carved and made up.
Regular punctuation marks and a few compendiums are also found.
+ A(nno) D(omini) M(illesimo) c(entesimo) (septuagesimo) (secundo) / ego Fantinus / doto istam / te(r)ram ab e/clesia S(an)c(t)i Ni/colai (quinque) mo/diolos ad se(r)/ vitiu(m) ospita/li et ponti.
(In the year of Our Lord 1172, I Fantino donate this land of five “modioli” confining with the church of S. Nicolò to serve the hospital and the bridge).
It is known that Fantino, oblate of S. Gregorio Magiore of Spoleto, founded the church of S. Niccolò ‘de Marrubia’ and became its prior.
When he decided to donate his lands for the hospital and the bridge, he desired to engrave the fact on the church to keep the memory alive.
In a few rows, the epigraph reminds the system bridge-hospital-church, kept almost undamaged since the Middle Ages up to this date surrounding the suburban church of S. Nicolò.
Up to 1974 the inscription was set on the front wall of the church to the right of the entrance; it was then stolen, recovered and deposited in the Municipal Art Gallery of Spoleto.

VIII/2 inscription
           white marble, 1155
           cm 33 x 27 x 8,4
           Spoleto, Ponte Bari

It includes nine rows, half of them formed by words divided into syllables.
The Romanic characters assume gothic-like shapes here and there.
Abbreviation and punctuation marks are found.
Hoc est Spoletum / censu p(o)p(u)loq(ue) repletum, / quod debellavit / Fredericu(s) et igne cremav(it). / Si queris quando, / post partu(m) Virginis an(n)o / mill (esimo) c(entesimo) (quinquagesimo) (quinto). / Tres novies soles iulius / tunc mensis habebat.
(This is the rich and populated Spoleto that Frederick defeated and burnt with fire. If you want to know when, on the year 1155 from the Virgin’s childbirth. It was the twenty-seventh day of the month of July).
The stone, that remembers Spoleto’s excidium by Barbarossa, had been indicated at the beginning of the XVI century by the humanist Severo Minervio ‘apud pontem de Baro’ (Bridge of Bari, in the suburb of Spoleto).
The first part, in rhyme, relates the fact while the second part specifies the date using the style of that time.
The inscription internal and external characteristics have divided the experts: some say it is authentic and contemporary to the facts, others think it is apocryphal; the doubts regard not only the palaeographic aspect but also the motivation on which the text is based as well as its ironic nature.

VIII/3 inscription
           white marble, 1172
           cm 31,5 x 72 x 16,5
           Spoleto, church of S. Niccolò de Marrubbia

It has nine fan-shaped rows written width wise.
The capital letters are accurately carved and made up.
Regular punctuation marks and a few compendiums are also found.
+ A(nno) D(omini) M(illesimo) c(entesimo) (septuagesimo) (secundo) / ego Fantinus / doto istam / te(r)ram ab e/clesia S(an)c(t)i Ni/colai (quinque) mo/diolos ad se(r)/ vitiu(m) ospita/li et ponti.
(In the year of Our Lord 1172, I Fantino donate this land of five “modioli” confining with the church of S. Nicolò to serve the hospital and the bridge).
It is known that Fantino, oblate of S. Gregorio Magiore of Spoleto, founded the church of S. Niccolò ‘de Marrubia’ and became its prior.
When he decided to donate his lands for the hospital and the bridge, he desired to engrave the fact on the church to keep the memory alive.
In a few rows, the epigraph reminds the system bridge-hospital-church, kept almost undamaged since the Middle Ages up to this date surrounding the suburban church of S. Nicolò.
Up to 1974 the inscription was set on the front wall of the church to the right of the entrance; it was then stolen, recovered and deposited in the Municipal Art Gallery of Spoleto.