The metaphor was also used by Ovid, Boccaccio, Ronsard, and by du Bellay in “Les antiquités de Rome”, which was translated by Spenser as “The Ruins of Rome” and which inspired Shakespeare to write in his magnificent sonnet 55: “Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of Princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme”.
Just before the Enron and WorldCom cases were exposed in the United States, the Chinese media had unveiled a fund scandal in its securities trading. In this case, some institutions were found of manipulating stock prices.