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Patrick
June 21, 2025
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The monument in Piazza Umberto I dates from 1979 and is made of a block of grey peperino. It shows the shepherd Martius trying to extract a thorn from his foot (hence his nickname ‘Lo Spinario’, the ‘thorn-puller’). He was sent by the people of Vitorchiano to warn Rome of an impending Etruscan attack on Rome. Martius barely managed to warn senator Fabius Maximus Rullianus of the danger when he fell lifeless from exhaustion and the wound he had sustained. The Romans successfully repelled the Etruscan attack and Rome was saved.
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