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Daughter to Pope Julius II
Pope Julius II was a force to reckon with. His illegitimate daughter, Felice della Rovere inherited her father’s strength and intelligence and made the Renaissance her own!
Marius, the Guardian of Rome
The story of Consul Caius Marius was saved for posterity by two Roman scribes, Tacitus and...
Art and History in Rome
The truth is you can spend a lifetime in Rome and still only scratch the surface of the great...
The Vestal Virgins of Rome
Rome borrowed Gods from the Greeks and the Etruscans to mix with its own collection of largely rustic home grown divinities; creating a religion that was more like a business affair. In which the worshipper promised X to a god in return for Y. Religion has been th...
Empress Messalina Prostitutes Herself
In 38 AD Emperor Claudius married his second cousin, Valeria Messalina. And Caesar had no idea what was to come? The Perfect Wife Messalina was the third wife of Claudius, who was a paternal cousin of the Emperor Nero (and whose daughter Octavia later became the w...
Rome is Filled with Treasures
There is a certain comfort in knowing that the very fast world that most of us live in today, slows down considerably in a city like Rome.
Yet so many first time visitors happily leave quickly for the more gentle and provincial streets of a
Stolen From Italy
In 2016 European culture and in particular the historical and artistic patrimony of Italy celebrates an event, the likes of which we hope will never be repeated. Italian Art comes home to Italy It was in the spring of 1816 that the Papal States’ masterpieces of ar...
Library of History in Rome
“What is more important in a library than anything else is the fact that it exists” said Archibald MacLeish. He may well have had the awe inspiring library, Biblioteca Angelica in Rome in mind when he coined that phrase. A Miracle of a Library Considering that it ...
Charles V and the Sack of Rome (1527)
The Sack of Rome on May 6 1527 The Sack of Rome was a personal tragedy for Charles V, who along with many other titles was also the Holy Roman Emperor, whose mutinous troops put Rome to the sword. The army of the Holy Roman Emperor defeated the French army in Ital...
Some Facts about the Colosseum in Rome
In part we have Hollywood with films like Ben Hur and Quo Vadis to thank for having us believe that the Colosseum was a place of Christian slaughter, delicate morsels to be ‘fed to the lions’ and martyrdom. It was not despite the fact the Church in Rome declared i...
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