Couples visiting Assisi cannot fail to be entranced by the 'wall of love' painted by the ancient Roman elegiac poet Sextus Propertius in the...
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During its height from the 1st to the 3rd centuries AD, Baiae was the place to vacation for Rome's grandest citizens.
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Join us for a reading of Vincent Katz's new collection of poems, “Broadway for Paul,” with poets Norma Cole, Kyle Dacuyan, Elaine Equi, Patricia Spears Jones,...
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Underwater archaeologists from the CSR Restauro Beni Culturali are conducting restoration works of a recently rediscovered mosaic in the submerged remains of...
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The peculiar poetry commonly called Roman Love Elegy was more than a fad but less than a genre. It flourished for about a generation, roughly from 29 BC to 8...
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Fish dart across mosaic floors and into the ruined villas, where holidaying Romans once drank, plotted and flirted in the party town of Baiae, now an...
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A team of underwater archaeologists have discovered a mosaic in the submerged ruins of Roman Baie. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News.
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Before publishing his famous Chinese poetry translation “Cathay” in 1915, Ezra Pound apparently had no knowledge of Chinese at all.
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In 1985, he was asked to deliver six Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard. Calvino chose the title for the sixth, “Consistency,” but died before he wrote...
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Recently, an ancient Roman mosaic was discovered by the Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park in January 2023. This mosaic, which was known as...
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