Book Review: Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay by Benjamin Taylor
December 30, 2024
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Salvatore Giuliano, #65
November 27, 2024There is a common refrain among academics and law enforcement officials who have studied the Italian...
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Book Review: Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale
October 13, 2024Seeing a paint brush on the floor, the emperor reached down to retrieve it and presented...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mafioso, #80
July 16, 2024“The Sicilians,” the agent said, “are very serious about what they do.” We see a lot...
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Book Review: Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad
June 3, 2024Perhaps, the best way of approaching Conrad’s book is to regard it primarily as a meditation...
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Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance
May 9, 2024More importantly, the good-for-you, vitamin-enriched Renaissance we know today is itself a fairly recent, and largely...
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Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles
May 8, 2024Carthage, however, was not merely conquered by Rome. As the title of Miles' book asserts, Carthage...
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Book Review: How I Lost the War by Filippo Bologna
April 30, 2024Yet in Federico’s town, pools are pumped and wells are closed. They remove centuries old trees...