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2008
O’ the Barberini by the Capuchins;
Where the Old Triton, at his fountain-sport,
Bernini’s creature plated to the paps,
Puffs up steel sleet which breaks to diamond dust,
A spray of sparkles snorted from his conch,
High over the caritellas, out o’ the way
O’ the motley merchandizing multitude
—Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, I, 28–29