Alberto Moravia – Italian Novelist

Sergio Vacchi – Portrait of Alberto Moravia, 1969. Oil on canvas, 90 x 100 cm. @ Casa Museo Alberto Moravia,

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1001 Ways to Die – (7) Cy Twombly, American, Painter and Sculptor

Cy Twombly, one of my favourite modern artists, has died on Tuesday, 5th July 2011 in Rome, Italy, losing a long battle

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La Dolce Vita – Fellini's Masterpiece

“The film first impinged on the world at large in February 1960 when foreign journalists reported back to their readers,

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Artichokes Jewish Style – Carciofi alla Giudea

This is a classic dish, and a very tasty one! I was in Rome for one day and had the

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Ristorante Il Pagliaccio, Roma, Italia

Today I want to share with you the impressions from my visit to the restaurant “Il Pagliaccio” in the historical

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Michelangelo’s Pieta: Rome and Florence

Today I would like to share with you some thoughts on two Michelangelo sculptures with the same subject: Pieta. There

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Wine Bar dei Frescobaldi – Aeroporto di Roma, Fiumicino, Italy

  Genuinely polite service I believe that civilization is an everyday affair. Of course saying is not practicing. One of

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Enoteca Palatium, Rome, Centro Storico, Italy

This is a short report from my visit to Palatium in late May 2008, a “cool” enoteca that serves food

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