Progress in Rome?  About as unlikely as Hannibal turning back at the Alps or Attila the Hun tossing candy to toddlers.  But once in a while ...

Courtyard - hard to believe this is off via del Corso Galleria Doria Pamphilj (or Pamphili) is a stupendous gallery of  paintings and sc...

Italian-American writer John Fante [1909, near Chieti - 1983] was in Rome in the summer of 1957, and again in 1960, on the latter occasion...

This year we lived in the area generally known as San Giovanni, after the basilica at its northern end, San Giovanni in Laterano.  Our ap...

Our friend Brian was in town, and we somehow convinced him to accompany us as we pursued our Porta Portese.  A good place to get run ove...