Sassoli State Funeral in Rome
Italy EU Sassoli Funerals, yesterday in Rome, at Santa Maria deli Angeli e dei Martiri.
Will the Beauty save the World?
Philosophy in Castelli Romani: how beauty can save the world even though the Virgin Mary is blond and lascivious, according to Raymonde Lulle. I was putting my register away in the drawer, and about to go back home, when this stocky old man moved towards me, stood on...
Nero at The British Museum: trying to depict a different figure of the Roman Emperor
Nero at The British Museum – In a very crowded British Museum, which overcomes every good sense during a pandemic, Nero’s exhibition is taking place. In light of the new researches, and ranging from vain things, like the fashionable Nero’s haircut, to his major...
One day with Keats from the lovely balcony of Keats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome
Trinità dei Monti. Keats and Shelley House, a small apt. in the most famous staircases of the world. When Italians and English work together and then ask money to Americans, here the result: in 1909, a jewel was born. But let’s imagine Rome at that time, less than...
The Citta Irreale, or London through the eyes of the Italian Cristina Marconi, about ten years ago
Città irreale is a novel by Cristina Marconi on the unsubstantiality of big cities, such as London, and the kind of love you can find in them Città Irreale by Cristina Marconi drops into my hands when I’m trying to move from Paris to London. It was the gift of my...