The cover of the English edition, featuring a street in Malo. It is difficult to be too concise in an introduction to an introduction. Here...
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Showing posts with label partisans. Show all posts
RST Top 40. #3: Via Tasso
The poet Tasso in a mental institution in Ferrara. Painting by Eugene Delacroix. For knowledgeable Romans, via Tasso has two meanings--t...
Rome the Second Time Top 40. #12: The Fosse Ardeatine
Cells at the former SS prison on via Tasso The grounds of the Fosse Ardeatine (Ardeatine Caves) include the caves [photo below] where, in ...
Genzano: Bread, Flowers and War
Genzano is one of several delightful hill towns along the via Appia, on the western edge of the Alban Hills ( Colli Albani). On one side o...
Bella Ciao: The Kids Are All Right
Frederika Randall returns as guest blogger with this post, that begins with a curious but telling incident at a Rome public school. Randall ...
Liberation Day in Rome - postscript
Liberation Day update... we spent a couple hours yesterday in one of Rome's "reddest" neighborhoods, Ga rbatella, built in the...
Liberation Day in Rome
April 25 – today is Liberation Day, the day Italy celebrates its liberation from th e Nazis. On this date in 1945, Milan and the other large...
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