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Book Review: Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale
February 15, 2026Seeing a paint brush on the floor, the emperor reached down to retrieve it and presented...

100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mafioso, #80
November 19, 2025“The Sicilians,” the agent said, “are very serious about what they do.” We see a lot...
Book Review: Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad
October 4, 2025Perhaps, the best way of approaching Conrad’s book is to regard it primarily as a meditation...
Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance
September 3, 2025More importantly, the good-for-you, vitamin-enriched Renaissance we know today is itself a fairly recent, and largely...
Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles
September 3, 2025Carthage, however, was not merely conquered by Rome. As the title of Miles' book asserts, Carthage...
Book Review: How I Lost the War by Filippo Bologna
August 25, 2025Yet in Federico’s town, pools are pumped and wells are closed. They remove centuries old trees...
Art Review: Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy, Denver Art Museum
August 9, 2025The shepherds look up in bewilderment at the announcing angel whose golden halo, rose-pink robes, and...







