Executed mostly at the Medici Villa in Rome between 1877-78. Another example of this work, in bronze, executed in 1886, was used at the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1900 (Centenalle), now conserve
The caduceus is the staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology and consequently by Hermes Trismegistus in Greco-Egyptian mythology. The same staff was also borne by heralds in general, for example by
