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The talking statues and Pasquini
Until about the beginning of the sixteenth through the nineteenth century statues of Rome were the protagonists of biting satire by unknown authors. The so-called "talking statues" were placed statues of the city's busiest streets which were suspended overnight and containing satire in verse, or humorous dialogues designed to mock the most important public figures, often even the pope.
Were an expression of popular discontent, but they were also used for propaganda purposes to combat opponents uncomfortable. Soon the Romans began to put names to these statues "Madama Lucrezia" statue of a woman representing perhaps a priestess, owes its name to a lady who lived right in Piazza San Marco where the statue. The "Porter" figure of a man pouring water from a barrel before the Palazzo De Carolis is now in Via Lata, "Abate Luigi", the "Baboon", but the most famous is "Pasquino" by the celebrated here "pasquinades. The statue of Pasquino is from 1501 in the plaza behind Piazza Navona, which he named Piazza Pasquino. It is a male bust probably dating from the third century BC, no one knows exactly what to portray, perhaps a king or a hero of Ancient Greece, but is so badly preserved that it is difficult to establish with certainty. The origin of its name is uncertain, seems to derive from the fact that the statue was discovered at a barber's shop or a tavern owner whose name was just Pasquino. One of the best known is pasquinades addressed to Pope Urban VIII, the Barberini family who had removed parts from the Pantheon to use them in making the canopy of St Peter, "quod non fecerunt Barbarians fecerunt Barberini. Another famous statue considered the "shoulder" of Pasquino, is to Marforio, figure of a man lying down in the courtyard of Palazzo Nuovo at the Capitoline Museums. The pasquinades had become, however, inconvenient to many so that several Popes tried to discard it, by ensuring the statue day and night by guards or promising severe punishment for the perpetrators, but without any concrete results. By the nineteenth century the statues seem to have a break, returning to be felt during the visit of Hitler to Rome "Poor de Rome my travertine! They've dressed all made from cardboard Pè gazing from 'n'imbianchino your next boss and then Gorbachev's "perestroika nun if magnet du' days there would Pedagna Mann er if there cominceno to shove off from running."
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The talking statues and Pasquini
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Until about the beginning of the sixteenth through the nineteenth century statues of Rome were the protagonists of biting satire by unknown authors. The so-called "talking statues" were placed statues of the city's busiest streets which were suspended overnight and containing satire in verse, or humorous dialogues designed to mock the most important public figures, often even the pope. Were an expression of popular discontent, but they were also used for propaganda purposes to combat opponents uncomfortable. Soon the Romans began to put names to these statues "Madama Lucrezia" statue of a woman representing perhaps a priestess, owes its name to a lady who lived right in Piazza San Marco where the statue. The "Porter" figure of a man pouring water from a barrel before the Palazzo De Carolis is now in Via Lata, "Abate Luigi", the "Baboon", but the most famous is "Pasquino" by the celebrated here "pasquinades. The statue of Pasquino is from 1501 in the plaza behind Piazza Navona, which he named Piazza Pasquino. It is a male bust probably dating from the third century BC, no one knows exactly what to portray, perhaps a king or a hero of Ancient Greece, but is so badly preserved that it is difficult to establish with certainty. The origin of its name is uncertain, seems to derive from the fact that the statue was discovered at a barber's shop or a tavern owner whose name was just Pasquino. One of the best known is pasquinades addressed to Pope Urban VIII, the Barberini family who had removed parts from the Pantheon to use them in making the canopy of St Peter, "quod non fecerunt Barbarians fecerunt Barberini. Another famous statue considered the "shoulder" of Pasquino, is to Marforio, figure of a man lying down in the courtyard of Palazzo Nuovo at the Capitoline Museums. The pasquinades had become, however, inconvenient to many so that several Popes tried to discard it, by ensuring the statue day and night by guards or promising severe punishment for the perpetrators, but without any concrete results. By the nineteenth century the statues seem to have a break, returning to be felt during the visit of Hitler to Rome "Poor de Rome my travertine! They've dressed all made from cardboard Pè gazing from 'n'imbianchino your next boss and then Gorbachev's "perestroika nun if magnet du' days there would Pedagna Mann er if there cominceno to shove off from running."
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