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“Quelli col solo ingegno, separata ogni matera, mesurano le forme delle cose. Noi, perché vogliamo le cose essere poste da vedere, per questo useremo…
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"The Kings over the Water" (or the Old and Young Pretenders): the last of the Stuarts in Rome.
One of my favourite things in St Peter’s Basilica is the funerary monument to the last of the Stuarts, not least because a piece of bonny Scotland in…
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A Podcast about Rome. Episode 18: Trajan's Harbour at Portus.
The ancient port of Rome at Ostia had, in legend, been founded by Ancus Martius, the fourth of Rome’s seven semi-legendary kings. However winds…
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A Wander along the Aurelian Wall, or "one thing too many"
Once having found the Wall I could not forget it, or be unaware of its continuity. Its reemergences into view, out of covering buildings, never are not…
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April's Monthly Newsletter
As I mentioned in my last post, last month found me on a foray southwards on a bespoke Grand Tour de nos jours for clients of Bellini Travel, who…
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Paradise Regained: The Painted Garden of Livia at Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
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Some of my favourite views of Rome
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The Swan Song of Empire: the Opus Sectile of Porta Marina
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The Stoicism of the Hellenistic Boxer
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Some thoughts on fountain rooms
I spent the last week showing delightful clients of the inestimable Bellini Travel around a selection of delights in Rome, Campania and Sicily. When…
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Vespa Tunes XVIII: Il Treno Va, Paolo Conte, 1992
I’ve always loved a train ride. It’s something about the suspension of time: one is going somewhere, in itself an achievement, and is limited in what…
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The Stoicism of the Hellenistic Boxer
All photos taken by me 13th March, 2024 Rome is crammed with relentlessly astonishing and intriguing places; home to a panoply of sites which anywhere…
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March's Monthly Newsletter
For how long, I wonder, will the arrival of early March bring a frisson of anxiety? Four years have gone by since Italy was the first country outside…
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A Podcast about Rome. Episode 17: Trajan's Column
A stone’s throw from the Forum of Nerva, about which I spoke last time, is one of the finest, most innovative, and indeed largest examples of Roman art…
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Leap Years and Lepanto
Today is the twenty-ninth of February, a bonus day to even up calendar discrepancies which allows me (just) to squeeze in another newsletter this month…
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Museo of the Forma Urbis on the Caelian Hill
Last month a new museum opened in Rome on the peaceful slopes of the Caelian Hill, a languid stone’s throw from the hubbub of the Colosseum. It is the…
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Peacocks and Peristyles: the "Villa Poppea" at Oplontis
In his Italian Journey, Goethe writes: “We lunched at Torre Annunziata at a table on the beach. Everyone was happy to live in that place, some…
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February's Monthly Newsletter
Somehow, inexplicably, we’re already halfway through February and I’m a little late with my monthly newsletter. It’s been a busy few weeks and as well…
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