Cap 12. ALCUNE DELLE ALTRE : Giselda (11) Come vi ho già detto, nel novembre del 1881, il giovane Gabriele, spinto dal padre, si iscrisse alla facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell’Università di Roma e prese casa nella capitale gettandosi “con avidità pazza nel turbine dei piaceri”.Qui, malgrado la giovane età, divenne ben presto celebre… Read More Le donne del mio Vate – ☾ XCI☽ 🖋️
Cap. 8 –LUISA: conseguenze del Volo (15) Alcune malelingue sostennero che il Volo dell’Arcangelo, cioè la caduta dalla finestra, fosse dovuta al fatto che Gabriele assumesse cocaina fin dai tempi di Fiume (ma so che ne faceva uso anche in precedenza).Secondo altre voci l’incidente si era verificato in seguito a un capogiro da vertigini per… Read More Le donne del mio Vate – ☾LVI☽ 🖋️
Cap. 3 – Alessandra (4) Spalancata la porta, Alessandrina vide dapprima abiti gettati in modo disordinato sul pavimento e poi suo padre, nudo sul letto, abbracciato a una donna-Fuggì via, spaventata e inorridita e, sedutasi sulla scala, si mise a piangere. Lo sentiva come un grave tradimento, non solo nei confronti della mamma, ma anche… Read More Le donne del mio Vate – ☾XII☽🖋️
Margaret Fuller – born on 23rd of May 1810 – was an American writer and critic one of the earliest supporters of the women’s rights movement.She was the first professional woman journalist of note in America and wrote influential essays on various social issues some of which were collected in the book “Papers on Literature… Read More Margaret Fuller: an American in Rome
➡️Part 1➡️Part 2 Pietro Aretino, Giulio Romano & Marcantonio Raimondi (first part) Giulio Romano (1499 –1546) was an Italian artist, assistant in Raphael’s workshop, where he became so important that after Raphael’s death he completed a number of his master’s unfinished works. Before leaving Rome to become a painter and an architect at the court… Read More Pietro Aretino/3a
Il 14 agosto del 1893 nacque a Parigi la targa automobilistica, quando la Polizia avvertì la necessità di regolare la crescente circolazione dei veicoli a motore e decise di introdurre l’utilizzo di una placca di riconoscimento per tutte le auto pubbliche. La seconda nazione che introdusse tale obbligo fu la Germania, tre anni dopo, nel… Read More 🚗 La targa 🚗
On this day, two hundred years ago, 22-year-old John Keats (1795-1821) returned from a walking tour in the Lake Districts and Scotland with some friends, during which he had begun to show symptoms of the tuberculosis that would kill him within three years. It was 1818: during that year Keats’s health began to fail and… Read More 8 August 1818: Keats
The Latin name of the Villa is Ad Gallinas Albas, (by the white hen) and it comes from a well-known legend. On the day of her wedding with Octavian, an eagle dropped a white hen it detained in its clutches into Livia’s lap. The chicken held a branch of laurel in its beak. Advised… Read More The Villa of Livia (Ad Gallinas Albas)
Livia (30 January 58 BC – 28 September 29 AD), the third wife of emperor Augustus of Rome, had two sons – Drusus and Tiberius – by her first husband, Tiberius Claudius Nero. a member of the very old and prominent Claudian clan, who unfortunately supported the wrong party. When Octavian ( the adopted-son of… Read More Livia
Livia Drusilla (30 January 58 BC – 28 September 29 AD) was the third wife of the Roman Emperor Augustus, mother of emperor Tiberius, grandmother of emperor Claudius, great-grandmother of emperor Caligula, and great-great-grandmother of emperor Nero. She was deified by Claudius who acknowledged her title of Augusta. She was depicted in imperial propaganda as… Read More Livia Drusilla: First Lady of Imperial Rome
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