The wild still has a way of speaking to those willing to listen (from the author's personal archive) My recent trips upstate have brough...

Mystery solved. Now I know why it’s nearly impossible to find replacement copies of my beat-up old editions of Harold Acton’s The Bourbons o...

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

A Sphinx from Villa San Michele, Capri The enduring image of the sphinx has long stirred the imagination, appearing in the haunting works o...

Madame X (Lady Unknown) , ca. 1907, marble, Auguste Rodin. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Gallery (Gallery 800), Metropolitan Museum of Art “This i...

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New music that may be of interest to our readers. • Scarlatti: Il Trionfo della Grazia , performed by Ensemble Celadon Label: Ricercar Relea...

The Colossal Head of Augustus, dating from the 1st century AD,  is displayed on the east wall of the open-air Cortile della Pigna (Courtyar...

Gianandrea de Antonellis’ introduction to the 2019 edition of Elogio Funebre alla Pia Memoria di Ferdinando II (1859), subsequently republi...

To support Napoli is to understand that football is never just football. It is passion, fire, and mentality, a way of seeing the world. We h...

Santa Patrizia, ora pro nobis Beneath shortening days And fields heavy with fruit, August calls the soul From glory To sacrifice, For e...

The Forge of Vulcan , ca. 1660, Luca Giordano Beneath Etna’s ancient slopes Burned the hidden forge of      Hephaestus, Divine smith of gods...

The Temptation and Fall of Eve , 1808, William Blake For readers planning a visit to New York City, the following exhibitions promise an exc...

El Jaleo , 1882, John Singer Sargent Last week I found myself at a small tapas bar. A carafe of sangría roja rested on the table while the ...

Juan Vásquez de Mella y Fanjul (8 June 1861—26 February 1928) Revolutionary fever may indeed seize the soul and the social body, stirring up...

A European (skull) mount of a buck,  recalling the Buck Moon and the ancient symbolism of renewal Udremo a notte le sue lunghe muggia, udrem...

Photo courtesy of the Grand Ducal House of Tuscany Today, we commemorate the birthday of Her Imperial and Royal Highness Luisa Maria, Grand ...

Marble sculpture of Terpsichore , Muse of Dance, playing a lyre, 1st century A.D., Vatican Museums. Photo by New York Scugnizzo

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