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"A Chubbier Minerva", or welcome to my Substack.
“Quelli col solo ingegno, separata ogni matera, mesurano le forme delle cose.
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Some of my favourite views of Rome
5. Porta Maggiore
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Venetian Rituals: La Festa della Madonna della Salute
All photos taken 20 & 21 November 2024
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Never far from Rome III
The River Thames
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Barley Sugar Columns and Baroque Bling: Bernini's Baldacchino at St Peter's in the Vatican
All photos taken on 5 November 2024 unless otherwise specified
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November's Postcard from Rome
Yesterday I took folk on a wander through the Field of Mars under the crisp blue skies of a warm early November.
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Le Palais du Papes, the Babylonian Captivity, and some thoughts on the "Dark Ages"
Quid est enim aliud omnis historia, quam Romana laus
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Some of my favourite views of Rome
4: Clivo di Scauro
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Vespa Tunes XXI: Er Traffico de Roma, Radici nel Cemento, 2004
When I came to Rome with a university class trip in 1998—the class was “Bramante and High Renaissance Rome”—I remember our tutor cast an amusing, but…
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October's Postcard from Rome
In theory autumn is upon us, in practice in Rome it is still beach weather.
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A Podcast about Rome. Episode 22. Marcus Aurelius: the Philosopher Emperor and his Equestrian Statue
Marcus Aurelius is the last of those Machiavelli and Gibbon spoke of as the “Five Good Emperors”.
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Autumnal inconveniences and the imminent Jubilee
All photos taken over the last couple of weeks
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What is a Jubilee Year?
On Christmas Eve this year the Jubilee Year of the Roman Catholic Church, the Giubileo, will begin.
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20 September 1870: La breccia di Porta Pia
Today is the anniversary of the breaching of the Aurelian Walls at Porta Pia, walls which had served as defences of the city for sixteen centuries.
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