Palatine Hill
Where the empire lingers along fractured arches
Where the empire lingers along fractured arches
Where Quadratura breathes humanism into divine revelation
Where fresco incarnates reason beneath papal creed
Where archangel’s blade glints above the ramparts
Where apostolic keys reign above Berninian colonnades
Where argent propylaea intones revival
Where alabaster gods melt in crystalline grace
Where copious mouths evince the same fabrication