In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly lov...
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. Erica Jong, an American writer and poet....
A Horse Rider, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. My relationship with horses started when I was about 3 years old. My mother took me to the Moscow Zoo where I was photographed sitting on a p...
In Italy, my dear Frago, you are about to see the works of Raphael and Michelangelo; but let me tell you in confidence and as a friend that if you take those fellows seriously, you will be lost, done ...
As the author of the IMDb.com review points out, you wouldn’t find a single person not in love with the story told in the TV series, The Long Road in the Sand-hills (1980). It was shot in Latvia...
There is one point in which Italy in an artist’s eye must always have the preference – I mean the school it provides for study; and in this I do not refer merely to the pictures, statues a...
Little by little I will be sharing the interviews I made when producing and hosting The LOOK show in Manchester in 2005-2006. The first is the interview with Marc Rothemund, an Oscar-nominated German ...
This is also a wonderful place, or rather its’ environs are so. The town itself except the great street of Toledo is beastly, but the Quay (on which I live in an excellent hotel with a noble vie...
They entered Rome, not on a fine day, not on a fine night, but on a dark evening, in dreary weather which makes everything dull and indistinct. They crossed the Tiber without noticing it; they entered...
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. Truman Capote, an American writer....