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"A Chubbier Minerva", or welcome to my Substack.
“Quelli col solo ingegno, separata ogni matera, mesurano le forme delle cose.
Jan 11, 2022
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Agnes Crawford
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A Wander through Ostia Antica, part 2
From the Theatre to the Forum
Sep 20
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Agnes Crawford
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The Devil's Chair, or the tomb of (perhaps) Hadrian's freedman
As I have mentioned elsewhere I very much like combining errands with a spot of antiquity.
Sep 17
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Agnes Crawford
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September's Postcard from Rome
In this second week of September cloudy skies and storms are trying, not entirely successfully, to sweep away the heat of summer leaving the air heavy…
Sep 10
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Agnes Crawford
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A Podcast about Rome: Episode 27. The Sarcophagus of Sextus Varius Marcellus, and the Roses of Heliogabalus
Cruel, extravagant, sexually omnivorous, and gender fluid: the brief reign of the emperor Elagabalus has given rise to many a colourful tale.
Sep 2
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Agnes Crawford
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A Wander through Ostia Antica, part 1
From the via Ostiense to the Theatre
Aug 26
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Agnes Crawford
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Admin and Aqueducts; or Tor Sapienza, pensavo peggio
I’m a big fan of turning tiresome admin into a jaunt, and in Rome it’s really not hard: amazing things lurk in the unlikeliest places.
Aug 17
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Agnes Crawford
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Vespa Tunes XXV: Un Estate Italiana, Gianna Nannini & Edoardo Bennato, 1989
A visit this week to the super Burri Collection in the former tobacco drying sheds outside his home town of Città di Castello reminded me of the first…
Aug 10
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Agnes Crawford
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August's Postcard from (not quite) Rome
I love the slightly sticky languid torpor of August in Italy.
Aug 7
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Agnes Crawford
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Roma Città Aperta, and the Mausoleum of the Fosse Ardeatine
Last month I saw Rossellini’s extraordinary film Roma Città Aperta on the big screen in Piazza San Cosimato on the occasion of its eightieth…
Jul 31
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Agnes Crawford
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Vespa Tunes XXIV: Nostalgia Canaglia, Romina Power & Al Bano, 1986
Twenty-five years ago I moved into a flat-share on via della Pelliccia in Trastevere.
Jul 26
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Agnes Crawford
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"The Best Picture in the World": one of my favourite paintings, and the serendipitous tale of how it survived the Second World War
In 1925 Aldous Huxley wrote an essay called “The Greatest Picture” in his book Along the Road, Notes and Essays of a Tourist. It begins:
Jul 21
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Agnes Crawford
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