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13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Gospel according to John, ch. 15 (King James Version)
The pale pink rectangle under the majolica plaque of Mother and Child is an inscription that tells the story; the image, so often seen thruout Italy, could be banal were it not, with its inscription, so beautifully appropriate:
Sotto tuo manto accolti
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Gathered under thy mantle,
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In early Roman times and once again in the early Middle Ages, the lowlands around Trevi were underwater. The work of drying up the plain, conducted over several centuries first by Benedictine monks then by an 18c engineer, had left behind it many small ponds; and like most of them, this one too has now vanished, with only this edicola to mark its place.
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