Figure antagonist, Pasquino was the last talking statue of Rome ... or better .. n'deRoma!
Place in the center of the statue at night, were attacked satirical sonnets and politicians who took it mostly with state authorities, and against the pope, cardinals and the temporal power.
Pasquino's fame became such that some popes, worried, tried several times to take the author or authors of the "lampoons", they preside over the statue day and night but lampoons the compensation is extended to all the Roman statues. It was also proposed to throw the statue into the Tiber but the consciousness of some Cardinals prevailed on the authority of Pope Adrian VI.
Pasquino survived over time, the latest date from the lampoons fascism where after a long break back Pasquino:
"Poor de Rome my travertine!
You got all dressed
pè de carton made by gazing 'n'imbianchino your
next master. "
More recently, during the visit of Mikhail Gorbachev in Rome, Pasquino gave voice to the noise that certain security measures were causing to the Romans:
"The Perestroika nun if magna
by du 'days there Manni Pedagna
would clear off er cas de ce
cominceno to turn. "
The name's origin is shrouded in legend, of which there are several versions. Some Pasquino was a character of the neighborhood known for his satirical verses, perhaps a barber , a blacksmith, a tailor or a cobbler. Teofilo According Folengo Mastro Pasquino was a restaurateur who was leading the pursuit in the square. One hypothesis contends that recently was named a professor of Latin grammar to a nearby school, whose Students will have noticed the physical resemblance: they were to leave for the first goliardia satirical paper. There is also another version that would connect the name of the statue with that of protagonist of a story by Boccaccio (Decameron, IV, 7) died of poisoning sage, grass known for its quality but sanitizes the name so it would be to indicate who is damaged by the things that pretend to be good (how could it be, in that context, the papal power).
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