Notes From Italy: The Oversized Embassy
February 15, 2025Nor, it seems, do Americans get out of their diplomatic fortress the way they used to....
Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors
February 13, 2025The next time you go to Rome, take a half-day to go to Pomezia, just south...
Notes From Italy: Running, Rome, and Red Brigades
February 9, 2025I knew what was coming but it was always a thrill. Suddenly to our left the...
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
February 6, 2025Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
Notes From Italy: Cimitero Acattolico
February 6, 2025In 1738 came the first burial by the Pyramid that we know of, that of a...
Notes From Italy: Dawn in the Suburra
February 4, 2025In early June, the best time in Rome is dawn. A little after first light the...
Notes From Italy: Sunday With the CAI
February 3, 2025This is not Labrador. We are fifty miles northeast of Rome and a mile above sea...
My Father Il Duce: A Memoir by Mussolini’s Son – by Romano Mussolini
January 13, 2025Benito Mussolini had more than one mistress but only one wife, whom he legally married five...
Book Review: Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay by Benjamin Taylor
December 30, 2024Considering how “casual” the work is in its approach, you could, I suppose, call it a...
Two New York City Exhibits Explore the Art and Culture of Renaissance Venice
December 23, 2024The Venetians during the Renaissance were a confident and resilient people. Even as their dominions were...
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