Fontana del Tritone, Rome Deluge. The passage that Urban set Bernini to illustrate, was well known to all literate Roman contemporaries: Two finished terracotta "bozzetti" at the Detroit Institute of Arts, securely attributed to Bernini, reflect his exploration of the fountain's themes of the intertwined upended dolphins and the muscular, scaly-tailed Triton. The Triton Fountain is one of those evoked in Ottorino Respighi's "Fontane di Roma". The legend applied to Trevi Fountain has been extended to this: that any visitor who throws a coin into the water (while facing away from the fountain) will have guaranteed their return to Rome. The setting of the
Fountains of Rome (symphonic poem) Valle Giulia all'Alba"), shows this fountain at daybreak in a pastoral landscape which cattle pass through during the morning. In the second section, The Triton Fountain in the Morning ("La fontana del Tritone al mattino"), depicts Naiads and Tritons dancing in the morning light, as figures of the Bernini fountain are seen nearby. Gods and goddesses using conch shells are portrayed by the French horn. The third section, The Trevi Fountain at Noon ("La fontana di Trevi al meriggio"), is ushered in by a triumph giving news of a recent victory by the god Neptune. The final section, The Villa