Here lies one whose name was writ in water?
The Hard Life of city government which has now been renamed Dublin City Council. The closing chapters describe real locations in Rome and the Vatican. Manus buries Collopy in Rome at the Campo Verano cemetery and claims that the inscription he places on the headstone is an ironic joke on Keats' headstone. According to the novel, Keats' headstone reads "Here lies one whose name was writ "on" water" and Collopy's "Here lies one whose name was writ "in" water." (p. 602) The joke here refers to Collopy's devotion to lavatories: Collopy wished to his name written on the walls of the lavatories. However,
Fontana della Barcaccia from the 17th-century play "Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding" (1611) and was the source for his epitaph: "Here lies one whose name was writ in water." Jess Walter uses the fountain as a plot device in "Beautiful Ruins. Fontana della Barcaccia The Fontana della Barcaccia ("Fountain of the Boat"; ) is a Baroque-style fountain found at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Rome's Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Square). Pope Urban VIII commissioned Pietro Bernini in 1623 to build the fountain as part of a prior Papal project to erect a fountain in every major piazza in Rome. The fountain