The Trevi Fountain (1762) has always seemed to Anthony Burgess to be 'baroque going a little gamey, going a little bad'. He recalls that on one occasion, he had been in Rome and became disgusted by her 'viciousness, corruption, thieves, bureaucracy, sour people, sour wine'. He defied superstition and dared Rome to call him back. Not only did she call him back but she made him into a temporary Roman citizen and made him marry a Roman girl. 'I suppose she calls us back as a mother calls back her children, but she can sometimes be a very cruel mother.' Excerpt from 1978 Learning Corporation of America documentary.