The reference is presumably to the tower at the end of the Ponte Pietra. The bridge is largely rebuilt after its destruction by mines in 1945.
For the Ponte Pietra from Ruskin’s Educational Series see here.
Photographs show detail of Ponte Pietra leaf and flower moulding and the bridge in its present state:
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