Marcus Aurelius <i>on the Capitoline Hill</i>
Jamés S. Ackerman
In a recent book, Dante poeta veltro (Florence, 1953), Leonardo Olschki discussed the statues of Castor and Pollux that stand at top ramp leading onto Capitoline hill in Rome. He showed these representations Dioscures were brought to heart Renaissance city not merely as works art, but symbols: symbols heavenly protection (they are Gemini Zodiac) Liberty (to they stood for popular resistance tyranny), which roles had been guardians Rome since ancient times. addition, discovered an attribute appended political reasons by sixteenth-century Pontiff, Clement VII, made twins respectively Pope Emperor—co-rulers modern Roman Empire.
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