Featuring Umberto Eco on Orgasmus, an obscure Restoration Scottish nationalist on London, Mexico’s revolutionary and narco-corridos, and Italian Renaissance bandit- and Camorra-praise poetry, all for the benefit of the European Union’s commissar for provincial affairs.
In one of a number of Neapolitan-style toxic waste mafia scandals currently breaking in Spain (today it was also announced that of the 141 councils in Alicante province, 23 are under investigation for waste and planning offences), it has been alleged that Cerdanyola hosts an illegal and potentially explosive dump containing at least 650,000 tonnes…
The Google Earth version of ancient Rome is a bit like a collection of faked-up trainspotters’ notebooks. Until they find some way of populating it with exfoliant opera, our best bet as responsible amateur social historians is the porn industry: European production company Daring Media Group will release its first movie, Roma, in October at…
Tom Raikes, The Bibliophilist. In The gentleman’s magazine of June 1838. Source: GBS This is part of the beastly bookseller of Barcelona series and is referenced here. This needs annotation and will receive it in due course. There are a number of errors that one would not expect of a public schoolboy like Raikes, as…
Alphabetical list (via GBS unless otherwise indicated), and with no particular attention paid to the Greek vs Lybian business, to the Roman/West Mediterranean cult, or to anything else for that matter: “ABDERA, ab-dé’-ra, a maritime city in Thrace” (Beeton’s Classical Dictionary) Alesia, an ancient town of the Man« dubii in Gallia Lugdunensis, said to have…
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