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The Lion was placed in its present position in 19o3, and Rome of the twentieth century is responsible for the extraordinary
taste which converted into a fountain this old fragment, highly interesting as an antiquity but repulsive in itself, and
associated chiefly with the bloodiest and least attractive pages in Roman annals.
It is impossible to leave the Campidoglio without a heightened appreciation of the might of the constructive imagination.
Only that faculty, developed to its highest power as in Michelangelo, could have produced this magnificent harmony out of the
incongruous mass of classic and mediaeval survivals with which he had to deal.
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