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Some of my favourite views of Rome
Venetian Rituals: La Festa della Madonna della Salute
Barley Sugar Columns and Baroque Bling: Bernini's Baldacchino at St Peter's in the Vatican
Le Palais du Papes, the Babylonian Captivity, and some thoughts on the "Dark Ages"
Some of my favourite views of Rome
Vespa Tunes XXI: Er Traffico de Roma, Radici nel Cemento, 2004
A Podcast about Rome. Episode 22. Marcus Aurelius: the Philosopher Emperor and his Equestrian Statue
Autumnal inconveniences and the imminent Jubilee
20 September 1870: La breccia di Porta Pia
September's Postcard from Rome
A Podcast about Rome. Episode 21: The Temple of Antoninus and Faustina
Vespa Tunes XX: Via del Campo, Fabrizio de André, 1967
Some thoughts on Ferragosto, Simón Bolivar, and the Plebeian Secession.
A Podcast about Rome. Episode 20: The Pantheon
Plague and Pyrotechnics: La Festa del Redentore in Venice
Art and Artifice: some thoughts on the ancient Rome set at Cinecittà
Immersive Special Effects and the Baroque: The Ceiling of the Gesù.
The Unswept Floor Mosaic at the Vatican Museums
Scavenger Architecture and the Stendhal Syndrome at Santo Stefano Rotondo
A Podcast about Rome. Episode 19: Exoticism and Empire at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli.
Vespa Tunes XIX: Bartali, Paolo Conte, 1979
The Bucolic Benedictine Charms of the Sacro Speco at Subiaco
"The Kings over the Water" (or the Old and Young Pretenders): the last of the Stuarts in Rome.
A Podcast about Rome. Episode 18: Trajan's Harbour at Portus.
A Wander along the Aurelian Wall, or "one thing too many"
Some thoughts on fountain rooms
Vespa Tunes XVIII: Il Treno Va, Paolo Conte, 1992
The Stoicism of the Hellenistic Boxer
A Podcast about Rome. Episode 17: Trajan's Column
Museum of the Forma Urbis on the Caelian Hill
Peacocks and Peristyles: the "Villa Poppea" at Oplontis
A Podcast about Rome. Episode 16: The Forum of Nerva
The discovery of the Laocoön group in January of 1506.