First Full day in Rome. Ripped my mind out and put it back again. Used Brian Kelly's gift of "The Families Who Made Rome" as my guide, beginning with the Cenci, Santacroce and Mattei families. All villainous families who built a range of churches, fountains, villas and spaces. The photos that follow chronicle my day. Dayt ended with a great lecture by Chris Calenza the new head of the American Academy (and a JHU prof) on Machiavelli. His final comment was: Machiavelli said that people always find fault with the present, since (to quote Machiavelli) "human desires are insatiable, because nature has given them the capacity and the possiblity to desire everything but fortune has decreed that they can only attain a little. The result is a never-ending lack of satisfaction in people's minds and a weariness in what they have attained".
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| View of the Main Building at the AAR from my room |
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| My room. A very nice full apartment. |
Bar at the AAR
Library at the AAR
Where I am staying (building on the left)
My Pal Sean Craig's old neighborhood minutes from the AAR. Sean and I hung out here in 1975
Sean's apartment building where he lived with his family
Crossing the Tiber from Trastevere
First fountain sighting
Edge of the Forum. Ancient's were modern / Moderns are ancient
Lonsman in the Jewish Ghetto
Jewish chotchkes for sale
My favorite little church of the day. Thank you Brian Kelly. San Tomassoai Cenci of the Cenci family
Arco de Cenzi
End of lunch at Piperno - magnifico!
Thinking about my Pops!
Stalking the Santacroce family
Santacroce revealed
Stone as fabric
Walking the Tiber to my next stop
Stumbled onto the Galleria Spada by accident
Crazy Prospettiva at the Galleria Spada. All walls floors and ceilings are sloping. I think we should do this at the Ed St. John building.........
My favorite fountain by the Mattai family
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Church next to the Turtles
Jewish Museum
Crossing back
Fuel stop in Trastevere at 5:00 pm
What I walked on all day
West light
Walking back up the hill you can see modern architecture that makes urbanism
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