City blog. Rome based.
EDIT: I started writing this post before Italy’s lockdown due to the Coronavirus outbreak. It was originally supposed to be the second part of this post. At that time the emergency wasn’t so big, and didn’t seem to be any real danger even in Rome. The whole country was living as usual, and no alarm had yet shaken Italy and Rome. The situation quickly changed:
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The whole planet is now living a difficult time: an unexpected virus has changed the way we interact, and social exchanges have been affected. We all needed to face the emergency somehow, even changing our daily life.
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For a long time, the Etruscans governed Rome, and by them the Romans borrowed habits and practices. Etruscans were, in fact, three of the seven legendary kings who governed Rome: the Tarquinii (Tarquin the Elder, Servius Tullius, Tarquin the Proud).
In 509 BC The last Etruscan King Tarquin the Proud was banned from Rome, Etruscan rule over the city done and the Republic began.
If the presence of the Etruscans in Rome considerably influenced the customs of the original population (especially religion, with the construction of important temples and shrines, or the construction of essential infrastructures fot the future of Rome such as Cloaca Maxima or the drainage of the Valley of the Forum), their absence also brought great changes to Roman society.
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Only few monuments of the ancient world have become a symbol. The Ara Pacis, the altar built for the Emperor Augustus to celebrate the finally achieved peace, is one of those works that became the emblem of its own era.
From its realization in 9 B.C. to the final discovery and exploitation between 1930 and 1940, its status was able to re-establish itself in recent years through several initiatives aimed at give back a timeless image.
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1700 was an incredibly vibrant century in Rome from the artistic point of view; crossroads of artists, intellectuals, connoisseurs and art lovers, the Eternal City was an incubator of ideas that, developing, have shaped our vision of classical aesthetics.
(another post about neoclassic art is here)
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I can only note
that the past is beautiful
because
one never realises an emotion at the time.
It expands later,
and thus we don’t have
complete emotions about the present,
only about the past.
(Virginia Woolf)
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In the ancient neighborhood Sant’Angelo, near the old Jewish Ghetto, one of the most intimate and elegant squares of Rome. At its core, almost inevitably, a fountain.
Which is its magic touch? It’s hard to tell about it, but who wants to discover one of the richest districts in history and stories will not remain immune to his charms.
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