Love Poems: on the Streets and Sidewalks of Rome

Rome's walls--the walls of buildings, the sides of trains and Metro cars--are full of graffiti, some of it reaching the level of art, so...

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...

The Voice of Rome: Giuseppe Gioachino Belli

The minute a man becomes a priest, that priest becomes a man made holy, and no matter how he may sin, his sin will fly away from him like a ...