Quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt Barberini
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Quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt Barberini (What the barbarians did not do, the Barberinis did) is a dictum by Pasquino.
It is a well-known satirical lampoon left attached to the ancient "speaking" statue of Pasquino on a corner of the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy.
Through a sharp pun the writer criticizes Pope Urban VIII, of the Barberini family, who reused stones and decorations from ancient buildings to build new ones, thus wrecking classical constructions that even the barbarians had not touched.
Lord Byron changed it into quod non fecerunt Gothi fecerunt Scoti (What the Goths did not do, the Scots did) referring to the Scottish Earl of Elgin, who disfigured the Parthenon by taking its Elgin Marbles.
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