To save a ruin, send in the sheep
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The men went down the Via Vesuvius, which runs alongside the Leda house, just below the slope where the sheep were grazing. There, they tried to strike up a conversation with Barbara dell’Isola, 28, a white-coated art restorer (“What are you up to, Barbara?”) who was working near the sensual fresco of the Spartan queen holding Jupiter in disguise as a swan, on her lap.
She thought at first that it was “strange” to let the sheep till the fields above her while she was working on the walls.
“I felt there was a risk that some debris might fall on the walls,” she said. But then she realized that “they just eat.”
Some park staff saw the return of the sheep as a sort of return of life to Pompeii, a place that perhaps more than any other was synonymous with agonizing death.
A friendly brown and white stray dog followed Maurizio Bartolini, Pompeii’s gardener, as he walked to the fields. He said the park’s clean environment and lack of pollution had attracted more wild animals, including hoopoes, an owl that perched over Pansa’s aristocratic home, and many hedgehogs.
“The animals have returned to Pompeii,” he said.
Around 1 p.m., Mr. de Martino sent his dog Sara to round up the sheep, whose incessant rustling in the grass sounded like heavy rain. They made a loud, resounding parade back through the Vesuvius Gate and down a dirt track outside the park, followed closely by Mr. de Martino. Giuseppe Mingo, 59, one of the maintenance workers, watched them go, the ruins behind them, the volcano overhead.
“It’s like old times,” he said.
