Daily Archives: 22 February 2016

Of Palazzo Madama we "keep" the virtue che sono rappresentate nei quadri sulle preti di Sala Maccari, which tell the history of the Roman Senate:
• the DEFENSE OF THE COUNTRY: Appius Claudius the Censor while being conducted in the Senate to urge the Romans not to accept the humiliating peace terms imposed by Cinea, ambassador of Pyrrhus;
• the COURAGE: Marcus Papirius, He remained motionless on his seat before the invasion of the Gauls;
• l’HONESTY: Curio Dentato resist bribery attempt of the Samnites, who would pay him to convince the Senate to make peace;
• l’ELOQUENCE: the depiction of Cicero as he pronounces his indictment against Catiline, listening, isolated, from his seat;
• KEEP THE WORD DATE: the departure from Rome of Regulus, captured by the Carthaginians in the Battle of Tunis and sent home to the Parliamentary, on the promise to consider himself a prisoner. Legend has it that, When the consul returned to Carthage to keep his promise to the enemy, he paid with his life for his loyalty and his love for Rome.
The Carthaginians, having learned what advice Regulus had given the Senate, the precipitated closed a hill in a barrel bristling with nails.