Fountain of the Tritons Fountain of the Tritons The Fountain of the Tritons (Italian: "Fontana dei Tritoni") is a fountain in Rome (Italy), Piazza Bocca della Verità, in front of the basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin. This fountain should be distinguished from the similarly named nearby Triton Fountain ("Fontana del Tritone") by Bernini, in the Piazza Barberini, with only a single Triton. The building, starting from 1610, of the last Roman aqueduct, the "Acqua Paola", didn't move to the background the two aqueducts built just a few years before (the "Aqua Virgo" in 1570 and the "Acqua Felice" in 1587), which gave the
Piazza Bocca della Verità Victor and the Temple of Portunus, a deity related to the ancient river harbour. The fountain in front of the two temples, called Fountain of the Tritons, released by Carlo Bizzaccheri under commission of Pope Clement XI, was erected in the square in 1715; it has an octagonal basis and portrays two tritons supporting a shell from which the water springs. The square was the place where, until 1868, the sentences of death were executed. Piazza Bocca della Verità Piazza Bocca della Verità (Italian: "Square of the Mouth of Truth") is a square between Via Luigi Petroselli and Via della