In 1794 composer Joseph Haydn visited the Italian "castrato casanova" singer Venanzio Rauzzini at Bath in the U.K. In the garden of Rauzzini’s villa was a monument to his much-loved dog named Turk, with the inscription TURK WAS A FAITHFUL DOG AND NOT A MAN. As a tribute to the dog, Hadyn turned the text into a canon which Rauzzini like so much he had it added to the stone.
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| Turk is in the lower right. |
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