Victor Emmanuel II Monument
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It fronts the Piazza di Venezia at the end of the Corso, the Via Flaminia, down which in ancient times the legions marched in triumph after their victories. The trumpets blared, the man in the leopard-skin apron whacked out the booming rhythm on the big drum, and the vanquished clanked in irons in the middle of the procession. At the front was the chariot of the triumphant general in whose ears a slave was required to constantly whisper `Remember that thou art only human'.
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