Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
March 14, 2025A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
Imag(in)ing America
March 5, 2025The confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was to the Italians the “political, intellectual, and...
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
March 1, 2025Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
February 24, 2025Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
February 23, 2025A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Notes from Italy: Getting into the Mountains
February 20, 2025I did not know that Neanderthals once lived hereabouts; that farmers first settled here six thousand...

What coronavirus costs to the Italian cultural heritage.
February 19, 2025Given that Italy’s is generally considered the world’s richest cultural heritage, maintenance of its historic monuments...
Daniel Barenboim at La Scala
February 18, 2025Drama number three was the presence on the podium of Daniel Barenboim, the child prodigy born...
Notes From Italy: Some Old Envoys
February 16, 2025Counts who stank of garlic–as did the whole country–had sponged on him for seats in his...
The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson
February 15, 2025This long, well documented book by Rick Atkinson is one of the best accounts of any...





