The first night I was in Rome, I stepped outside my hotel, the Hotel Victoria Roma (which I highly recommend), on the Via Campagna, to try to take in the fact that I was in Rome, a place I've studied for more than two decades, a place that I've loved from afar.
My first order of business was finding one of the famous SPQR manhole covers, which I did around the corner. But what really struck me was this bust, in an alcove of the Aurelian Wall caddycorner from the Victoria Roma:
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