MYSTERIES OF PUBLIC WORKS

O to walk down new streets in a place whose antiquity is beginning to rub off and be blessedly lost, after much time past in the uncertainty of revision rather than discovery: "Lavinia Oddi Baglioni--To Her Parents" and the lapidary inscription concerning a 1998 restoration is all we muster in the way of clues to this bizarre, beautiful and very slightly serviceable memorial, signed also Senatus Populusque Romanus.