durfreno's

Updated: June 18, 2025

Then it was the fountain with its surmounting statues that caught my eye Durfreno's arresting, vigorous group of the Laocoon and I must draw rein and cry out in my amazement at so wonderful a piece of work, plaguing Arcolano with a score of questions concerning the identity of the main figure and how he came beset by so monstrous a reptile, and whether he had succeeded in the end in his attempt to strangle it.

Rafael Sabatini - The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza