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Roman wit is essentially satirical, and its true type is Pasquino. He is the public satirist, who lances his pointed jests at every absurdity and abuse. There he sits on his pedestal behind the Palazzo Braschi, a mutilated torso, which in the days of its pride was a portion of a noble group, representing, as is supposed, Menelaus dragging the dead body of Patroclus from the fight. Few of those who pass this almost shapeless fragment that it was once considered as one of the noblest works of ancient art. Yet this is the case. In the life of Bernini, written by his son Domenico, we are assured that this distinguished sculptor considered it as equal in merit to the Belvidere torso of the Vatican, and called it his mas ter; while Michael Angelo preferred the Vatican torso. On one occasion, says his biographer, having been asked by a noble stranger which statue of all in Rome he considered to be the most excellent, he replied, The Pas quino whereupon the stranger, supposing himself jested with, became very angry, and was on the point of ing the artist. Of these two torsi he was wont to say that they exhibi the greatest beauty and perfection of nature without any of the affectation of art.
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