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Notes From Italy: Sunday With the CAI
October 30, 2023This is not Labrador. We are fifty miles northeast of Rome and a mile above sea...
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My Father Il Duce: A Memoir by Mussolini’s Son – by Romano Mussolini
October 7, 2023Benito Mussolini had more than one mistress but only one wife, whom he legally married five...
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Book Review: Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay by Benjamin Taylor
September 22, 2023Considering how “casual” the work is in its approach, you could, I suppose, call it a...
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Two New York City Exhibits Explore the Art and Culture of Renaissance Venice
September 13, 2023The Venetians during the Renaissance were a confident and resilient people. Even as their dominions were...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Salvatore Giuliano, #65
August 16, 2023There 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
June 26, 2023Seeing 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
March 24, 2023“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
February 6, 2023Perhaps, 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
December 30, 2022More 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
December 29, 2022Carthage, however, was not merely conquered by Rome. As the title of Miles' book asserts, Carthage...