March 17, 2021

The change of seasons in Italy can create fashion challenges… and it’s bad for your health! Cambio di stagione can cause il colpo d’aria.

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March 7, 2021

Fascism and Feminism in Italy may not strike you as related ideas. Indeed, they are often more opposed than aligned. However, like much of Italy’s history, it’s more complicated than initially meets the eye. The topics of this post could not be timelier. March is Women’s History Month, and March 8th, specifically, is International Women’s Day.

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March 2, 2021

“There was art before him and there was art after him. And they were not the same.” #baroque #art #Italy #Caravaggio Click to Tweet The history of Caravaggio in Sicily is as dark as the man himself… Wanted for murder in Rome, hounded by creditors and cuckold husbands all over the Italian peninsula, and then finally

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February 23, 2021

This virtual art tour of Rome’s Churches is inspired by a conversation with my friend Elyssa Bernard in Episode 39 of my podcast.I intended to write a post that was sort of a checklist of things to see in Rome that are either free or very cheap, and that come just after the well-known “Top

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February 17, 2021

Is Opera Dead in the Post-Covid World? Music critics have been claiming the demise of the art form for decades. Finally, they might be right.

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