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1 5 10 15 ANNO XVIII DEL RISORGIMENTO ITALIANO DIMORA ULTIMA DI PACE E SOLA LIBERA DALLE TASSE PER CESARE SANZI PETROSELLI DEPUTATO DI FOLIGNO IN PERUGIA ED EMIGRATO NEL 1831 AVVOCATO DE REP NEL 1849 INDIPENDENTE SEMPRE DI ANNI LXXVI DI SALUTE VIRTU DELLA SORGENTE MARANO VOC. CESARINA E PER LA SVA FAMILIA SVO FRATELLO CARLO SVA SORELLA AGATA E FIGLIE DI QUESTA VIVA L'EGUAGLIANZA

In the Year 18 of the Italian Risorgimento, (this is) the last home in peace, and the only one free from taxes, for Cesare Sanzi Petroselli, deputy of Foligno in Perugia province, émigré in 1831, advocate of the Republic in 1849, always independent, 76 years old, whose health was due to the Marano spring at Cesarina,​a and for his family: his brother Carlo, his sister Agata and her daughters. (papal tiara) LONG LIVE EQUALITY (king's crown)

Currently (2000) in the Museo di Palazzo Trinci, Foligno

Who says the ancient Romans had no sense of humor? One of them chose to use the back side of this 19c inscription to carve an honorific inscription on. No skulls mind you, but it's still interesting.

Note:

a There is no place in the neighborhood of Foligno, nor indeed, as far as I can tell, anywhere in Umbria, called either Cesarina or Marano. There is a spring called Fonte di Marano very near a tiny place called Cerratina (which might be a "voc." as opposed to a full-fledged comune or town, although today it's a frazione) in Pescara province in the Abruzzo.

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