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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Not walking the talk
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 31 May 2012 ONE LAW FOR THE RICH, ANOTHER FOR THE POOR The Greeks don’t seem … Continue reading
Paris in the springtime
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Paris, 30 May 2012 PARIS IN THE SPRINGTIME ► 1:52 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF_yN1R2b5M Back in Paris. … Continue reading
Arrivederci, Roma!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Rome, 29 May 2012 ARRIVADERCI, ROMA! ► 2:31 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-prQ8AE_nvY If … Continue reading
Posted in Italy, USA
Tagged Arrivederci Roma, Bernini, Giacomo della Porta, Mario Lanza, Marisa Allasio, Peggie Castle, Piazza Navona, Renato Rascel
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Papal woes
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Rome, 28 May 2012 The Pope’s personal butler Paolo Gabriele is alleged to have been caught … Continue reading
Posted in Italy
Tagged Attilio Nicora, Gotti Tedeschi, Paolo Gabriele, Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican
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Viator infelix
Rome, 27 May 2012 The self-doubting, personally insecure, English poet Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) was an unhappy tourist in Rome in 1849. Like most educated Victorians, Clough was very much preoccupied by religion, which to him and his contemporaries meant … Continue reading
Posted in Italy, Literature, UK
Tagged Amours de Voyage, Arthur Hugh Clough, Papal Rome, Scarlet Woman
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SPQR
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Rome, 26 May 2012 Everywhere you go in Rome you come across the abbreviation SPQR. You … Continue reading
Posted in Italy
Tagged Campidoglio, Cicero, Livy, Michelangelo, Palazzo Senatorio, Rome, SPQR
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Love town
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Rome, 25 May 2012 R A O = M M … Continue reading
Roma felix
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Rome, 24 May 2012 CAPUT MUNDI Federico Fellini’s 1972 film “Roma” is a fictionalised autobiography of the … Continue reading
Shopping trolley in Campus Martius
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Rome, 23 May 2012 Seen on a poster on a wall in the Via del Corallo … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Italy, Religion
Tagged Catholicism, consumerism, Rome, winter solstice, Zen Buddhism, Zenit
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First Stalingrad, then Berlin
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Rome, 22 May 2012 Having just rocked up here amid the grey rains of a late … Continue reading
Posted in France, Germany, Greece, Italy
Tagged Beppe Grillo, Berlusconi, Bersani, Bossi, Marco Doria, Pizzarotti
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