Orazio Coclite on Ponte Sublicio - SOLD

Orazio Coclite su ponte Sublicio is a legendary episode present in one of the 142 books Ab Urbe condita written in the first century BC by Tito Livio, a Latin historian, which tells of the history of Rome since its foundation. The story has it that the fearless Orazio Coclite (from the Latin cocles with one eye) would have rejected Porsenna, king of the Etruscans, preventing the enemy troops from crossing the Tiber passing precisely on the Sublico bridge; its destruction prevented the invasion of the enemy making Horace the legendary hero who saved the fate of Rome. The magnificent painting is an autograph work of the Genoese painter Giovanni Battista Paggi who signed and dated 1590 the canvas has