The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
March 22, 2025Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
March 22, 2025No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
Amarcord: Marcella Remembers by Marcella Hazan
March 17, 2025If we are what we eat, then Marcella Hazan, the author of what are often recognized...
Casanova by Ian Kelly
March 15, 2025Ah, Casanova. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him. Or is...
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...
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