Memory Lane
Immaculate anxiety
"We are in twilight, like this evening," said Enzo Ferrari. It was 1976.
Rudge’s time
"They'll always pick on [Ezra Pound], but I know he wasn't an anti-Semite."
Long John
Some players are larger-than-life, and the Rome version of Giorgio Chinaglia qualified.
It’s nevicating!
Rome's one and only 20th-century blizzard struck in February 1986.
A husband too far
When a marriage begins with a fax, it may be time to look at love's fine print.
Too deep
When Alfredo Rampi was trapped in a well near Rome in June 1981, Italy came to a halt.
Vermi d’inchiostro
Italo Calvino was a monk, a scribe, a transcriber of Gamma Rays.
Hornets
"Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut."
Carnal knowledge
Once-upon-a-time in Rome, newspapers and sex seemed on and the same.
Red boy, Hitler boy
When Spain played soccer, taking the other side was an unwise move.
Malaparte in letters
Author Curzio Malaparte's vanity shows through in a previously unpublished 1949 correspondence.
Sex & lizards
My hair flapped in the wind. I was King of Italy. Briefly.