With Pasquino, the wall is the fly: a book review of Anthony Di Renzo, pasquinades from Rome’s famous talking statues

When you contemplate a fly on the wall, I doubt that you ever imagine that fly reporting back what it has seen and heard. You know, chin-wagging about the goings-on of a body politic, dishing on gossip, scandalmongering. I doubt, too, that you ever imagine the wall being the one—er, the thing—doing the talking.  Such might be deemed the conceit of ...