I’m in Rome, updating my Rick Steves Rome guidebook — and I’m lucky to have Roman guide Francesca Caruso at my side. Here, Francesca analyzes a favorite statue — the Dying Gaul — in the Capitoline Museums. In this touching work, we see how an empire at its peak respected its vanquished.

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