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
Emilianus of Trevi January). The saint is also venerated at Ripa in Perugia where his feast in celebrated on the Sunday closest to 28 January. Emilianus of Trevi Saint Emilianus of Trevi (), sometimes known as Miliano (died 304), was a 4th-century bishop of Trevi, martyred under Diocletian. An account of his life is given in the "Passio Sancti Miliani". Emilianus came to Spoleto from Armenia at the end of the 3rd century. He was consecrated bishop by Pope Marcellinus and sent to Trevi. Under the Persecution of Diocletian he was subjected to innumerable tortures and was eventually put to death on 28