IV.The fountain Michelangelo Viglia....
... SUL AUGUSTO ESEMPIO
LO DO AD ALTRUIDA ME,
dripped tranquilly into its grey stone basin. The second part of the inscription:
IL PELEGRINO, IL VILLICO,
IL CITTADINO L’AVRA.
VENITE, DISSETATEVI,
FRESCA PER VOI QUI STA....[1]
could not incite any one to accept its invitation. In the silent darkness of the night the solitary fountain repeated its purling cadence, for Centurano was asleep; its grey, white, and yellow houses had all their shutters barred. The first lights to be extinguished had been those of the architect Maranca, who rose earlier than any one else to superintend the repairs of the dome of Caserta. Next to his, those of lawyer Marini, who had to plead a case on the morrow at the Court of Santa Maria; and then those of Judge Scar
