Right, our apartment building on the Via Simeto side. Our place is on the 4th floor above the ground floor--the one with the "cutou...

Captive grass in Piazza Venezia There is no grass in Rome.  Not until recently, anyway.  For years what passed for grass in Rome consis...

For all its virtues, Rome has spawned only a few novelists of the first rank:  Carlo Emilio Gadda, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Alberto Moravia....

Crane working at the top of the Spanish Steps Costly scaffolding, Piazza Verbano, quartiere Trieste Most of the buildings in Rom...

"The Simpsons" family is as well known in Italy as the Obamas or the Kennedys.  And among Rome's graffiti writers, it's...