I arrive back in Rome only to find that the exasperated city authorities have introduced a range of rigid new rules designed to stamp out the boorish behavior, they say, of tourists.

From now on, there’s to be no frolicking in public fountains, an activity made famous by Anita Ekberg, who danced fetchingly in the city’s Baroque era Trevi Fountain in Federico Fellini’s classic film “Dolce Vita.”