13 August, 1752 — 8 September, 1814 In memory of Maria Carolina of Austria, Queen of Naples and Sicily, we pray for the happy repose of her ...

Marble bust of Herodotos A recent visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art offered an opportunity to linger among the antiquities of ancient ...

A selection of Frank Frazetta collectible cards from my personal collection, featuring several works that will be on display at the Lucas Mu...

As a kid, buying a new comic book was one of those little pleasures I always looked forward to. Once my chores were done, I’d collect my all...

For Labor Day, some reflections from Ernst Jünger’s The Worker: Dominion and Form  * on the worker, the economic world, and the question of ...

Photo by New York Scugnizzo

Just in time for the Feast of San Gennaro, the Italian American Emporium in Little Italy, New York, has introduced beautiful new statuettes ...

The growing collection of stickers on the bar at the Italian American Emporium in Little Italy, New York, continues to catch my eye. Here ar...

New titles that may be of interest to our readers. Available at Amazon.com • The Treasure of San Gennaro: Gold, Silver, and Sacred Relics in...

One of the pleasures of the past few days has been receiving photographs from a friend traveling through Naples with his family. Each new pi...

Servant of God King Francesco II of the Two Sicilies (1836-1894) On September 5, 1860, King Francesco II of the Two Sicilies left Naples for...

In Search of… with the Ghost of the Count of Sciancato explores mysteries where history and legend blur and conjecture begins—along with the...

Scène de Juillet 1830 (Les Drapeaux) , 1830, Léon Cogniet, Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans. Painted to glorify the July Revolution, Cogniet p...

“Often I sit alone at night, staring with the eyes of the mind into the darkness of unborn time, and wondering in what shape and form the gr...