Rome
Destination: Italy Movie: Three Coins in a Fountain (1954) Stars include Jean Peters, Dorothy McGuire, Maggie MacNamara, Clifton Webb, Rossano Brazzi and Louis Jourdan If you want a look at a foreign culture, the original Three Coins in a Fountain movie will do it for you. Yes, there is a lot about Italian culture, but [...]
PDF Another TV hit for travelers–this time ITALY is the destination. I have Longitude books to thank for this discovery, and you can browse the whole collection of these mysteries at their site. If you don’t already get their newsletter, I highly recommend it for outstanding travel books. Aurelio Zen mysteries by Michael Dibdin air on [...]
Destination: Rome, Italy Book: The Last Judgment: Michelangelo and the Death of the Renaissance by James A. Connor (NEW Paperback Edition August, 2010 from Palgrave MacMillan) Like Michelangelo and The Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King, this book concentrates on one major work of the maestro. Unlike King’s book, The Last Judgment by James A. (Jim) [...]
Destination: Rome Movie: Angels and Demons Well, here we are at the end of Italy week. I went to the long-awaited movie of around noon today. I would say it was the equivalent of dining on one of those fancy bakery cakes decorated with lard and sugar icing and fresh violets. Absolutely beautiful, but [...]
Destination: Rome Books: The Masters of Rome Series by Collen McCullough It seems to me that is essential to have some understanding of ancient Rome if you are going to travel to today’s Rome. All those piles of rock and bits of arches in the forum, with the magnificent hulk of the Coliseum watching over [...]
Keep your eyes open and you will see some changes at the Traveler’s Library in the next few weeks, as I complete the 31-day Blogging Challenge sponsored by the guru of blogging, Darren Rowse. There simply is no better source of information for bloggers on the web than Darren Rowse’s blog. One change that has [...]
Destination: Rome Book: Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King A Journey into Michelangelo’s Rome by Angela K. Nickerson Number one on my Italian travel agenda: Rome. Number one in Rome: The Sistine Chapel. After a lifetime of seeing pictures of those outstretched index fingers, I wanted to see the rest. Not a [...]
