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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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Agnes Crawford
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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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Agnes Crawford
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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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April 2023
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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Agnes Crawford
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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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Rus in Urbe IV: the Palatine Hill
The Palatine Hill, part of the splendid Parco Archeologico del Colosseo, is the ultimate example of rus in urbe. It is a magical, bucolic, dramatic, and…
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Vespa Tunes XI: Grazie Roma, Antonello Venditti, 1983.
Antonello Venditti is a certain romanitas personified, and I think he’s beyond super. As I mentioned in my second Vespa Tune he was present at the first…
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April's Monthly Newsletter
Rome has had a curious start to spring: blue skies and burgeoning wisteria alternating with gelid winds and impromptu hail storms. With the notable…
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A Podcast about Rome. Episode 10: Insouciant exoticism and engineering triumph - Porta Maggiore and the Claudian Aqueduct.
Listen now (16 min) | The closest point of the Aurelian Wall to my apartment is also one of my absolute favourite parts. It is the Porta Maggiore…
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Agnes Crawford
March 2023
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