wayman.livejournal.com ([identity profile] wayman.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] jere7my 2009-07-22 01:33 pm (UTC)

Pope Urban VIII melted down the massive bronze pedimental sculpture for cannon, which led one anonymous wag to say, "What the barbarians didn't do, the Barberinis did.

Didn't at least a little of that melted bronze go into the making of a tambourine?

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