May 8, 2020: On Via d. Trinita dei Monti, Rome

As I walked up the Spanish Steps, dark menacing storm clouds hovered over Rome. I turned onto Via d. Trinita dei Monti, intent to enter the Borghese Gardens. I stopped in my tracks when I saw someone had kindly put a straw hat with a red rose on Italian writer and politician Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi that would protect his sculpted bust from the rain.