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July's Postcard from Rome (and Ponza)
Last month I briefly fled the torpid heat of Rome for a Pontine foray in the company of Gillian Knows Best (because Ponza is one of many places of which she does indeed Know Best). Midweek in June, just before large numbers of Romans descen...
"The Pinecone of St Peter's in Rome"
If you have visited the Vatican Museums you will almost certainly have noticed a giant bronze pinecone, one can hardly miss it.
If you have visited the Vatican Museums you will almost certainly have noticed a giant bronze pinecone, one can...
Some of my favourite views of Rome
13: the Pyramid of Gaius Cestius
Who, then, was Cestius,
Piero di Cosimo's Santa Maria Maddalena, and the ineffable appeal of material history
La Maddalena di Piero di Cosimo: Arte, Storia e vite di donne nel Rinascimento Fiorentino, Palazzo Venezia, until 5 July 2026
La Maddalena di Piero di Cosimo: Arte, Storia e vite di donne nel Rinascimento Fiorentino, Palazzo Venezia, until...
June's Postcard from Rome
Last Tuesday Italy celebrated the Festa della Repubblica, a national public holiday commemorating the referendum held on 2 June 1946. The vote abolished the monarchy, which had behaved with rather less than noblesse oblige during the Second...
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