COLA DI RIENZO MEMORIAL

Erected 1887
Halfway up the Campidoglio ramp on the left

(Text from Not Built in a Day page 24)

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A patchy, equivocal monument to a patchy, equivocal leader . . .

 

. . . In its quiet way, the memorial evinces not only a sense of history, but a sense of irony as well – a rare quality in a civic monument.