From the window of his new office, he looks out at the Forum and the Colosseum, and the great gash of highway that runs between them, the Via dei Fori Imperiali. Rammed through Rome's ancient core in 1932 by Benito Mussolini, the road had become a snarling mass of honking Fiats, darting Vespas and lumbering buses, all spewing exhaust onto one of the world's premier archaeological sites.