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Gleaming in the Gloaming: Roman Church Mosaics IV

November's Monthly Newsletter

A Podcast about Rome. Part 7: Laocoön and His Sons.

Vespa Tunes VIII - La Leva Calcistica della Classe '68, Francesco De Gregori, 1982.

Villa Romana del Casale: photographs of the Late Imperial mosaics at Piazza Armerina, Sicily.

Pilgrims, Plague, and Photocopies.

October's Monthly Newsletter

A Podcast about Rome. Part 6: Sulla and the Tabularium

Quartieri I: Garbatella

Vespa Tunes VII - Veni l'Autunnu, Franco Battiato, 1988.

Gleaming in the Gloaming: Roman Church Mosaics III

September's Monthly Newsletter

Cosmatesque Architecture and the Coronation.

A personal recollection of 11 September 2001 as seen from Trastevere.

Dirty Feet and A Crumbling Doorway: Caravaggio and the Madonna of Loreto at Sant'Agostino in Campo Marzio.

Vespa Tunes VI - Quattro Amici, Gino Paoli, 1991

August's Monthly Newsletter

Gleaming in the Gloaming: Roman Church Mosaics II

Stones of Rome III

A Podcast about Rome. Part 5: Hunting Hannibal, traces of the Punic Wars in Rome.

The Nile Mosaic at Palestrina: Hippopotamuses and Lotus Flowers.

July's Monthly Newsletter

Roman Church Mosaics I

Vespa Tunes V - Azzurro, Adriano Celentano, 1968

Stones of Rome II: A Geological Map of Empire

June's Monthly Newsletter

A Podcast about Rome. Part 4: The "Servian" Wall of the Early Republic.

Wanders through a hyperreal pandemic Rome.

Giacomo Boni: The Dawn of Modernity

May's monthly newsletter

Vespa Tunes IV - Roma, Lando Fiorini, 2002

The Papal Via Crucis: The Ashes of Empire and the Phoenix of the Church

Raphael, a thwarted pioneer of architectural preservation.

April's Monthly Newsletter

A Podcast about Rome. Part 3: Etruscan Places and the end of the Kingdom.

Rus in Urbe II: Il Parco della Caffarella

Vespa Tunes III - Resistenza, Fiorella Mannoia, 2019

The Stones of Rome I: A Geological Map of Empire

March's Monthly Newsletter

A Podcast about Rome. Part 2: The Lapis Niger and the Heart of Government

Four years ago today it snowed in Rome

Risorgimento Rome I: San Paolo entro le Mura

February's monthly newsletter

Vespa Tunes II - Roma Capoccia, Antonello Venditti, 1972

Rickety Lifts and Hidden Staircases I: Pietro Cavallini at Santa Cecilia in Trastevere.

A Podcast about Rome. Part I: Before the Beginning.

Vespa Tunes I - L'anno che verrà, Lucio Dalla, 1979

Rus in Urbe I : the abandoned town of Galeria Antica

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