Along Corso Vittorio Emanuele II is the Baroque church of St. Andrew, home of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, on the right side. The construction of the building was sponsored and financed by the Corsican-born physician Vico Guidoni, who was buried here in 1647 and remembered with a plaque displayed in the chancel. The church was built beginning in 1650 just across the street from the entrance to the Via dei Corsi, a street in which historically resided a large colony of inhabitants of Ligurian origin from Corsica, for whom the church and the Confraternity represented a point of reference. Externally, the facade was completed by about 1715, in a late Baroque style. The barrel-vaulted interior has two chapels on each side, inside which are inserted painted stucco altars featuring black twisted columns framing, in the first chapel known as the Chapel of the Holy Cross, the beautiful 17th-century Crucifix of the Neapolitan school, while the remaining chapels display canvases responding to the celebratory needs of the Confraternity. The pictorial works of the Ligurian school depict one St. George and the Dragon and the Virgin with St. John the Baptist and St. Jerome; the other two, however, Saints related to the doctrinal requirements of the Brotherhood such as: St. Rosalie, St. Roch and St. Blaise. From the sacristy, in which the seventeenth-century portrait on canvas of donor Don Vico Guidoni stands out, there is access to the upper floor in which important documents and furnishings are kept.
