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Thoughts on Time and Raphael's Transfiguration
I’ve been thinking about Time a great deal recently. It’s a curious business, isn’t it? Perhaps it’s because I’m at the sort of age where it starts…
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Agnes Crawford
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A Podcast About Rome. Episode 12: The Colosseum.
Listen now (25 min) | The Flavian Amphitheatre is undoubtedly one of the most famous buildings in the world, and an extraordinary manifestation of the…
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May's Monthly Newsletter
In early May three years ago the Italian lockdown began to ease and for the first time in two months an unfettered solo walk was allowed. Which was just…
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Santa Costanza on the via Nomentana: A Temporal Kaleidoscope on the Cusp of Christendom
I’m rereading, for the umpteenth time, Elizabeth Bowen’s splendid memoir A Time in Rome. It was first published in 1959 and describes a three month…
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Vespa Tunes XII : Dolce Enrico, Antonello Venditti, 1991.
As photos from 2020 pop up on my phone, and memories appear on social media, this spring I’ve been thinking sporadically about what was happening three…
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A Podcast About Rome. Episode 11: Nero's Golden House.
Listen now (15 min) | (& how it inspired the K2 phone box among much else)
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Happy Birthday Rome!
Today is Rome’s birthday. On the 21st April, 753 BCE (which I think we can agree is very specific for a legend), the city was founded by her first king…
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