Yanis Varoufakis and Homer
As a baby-boomer who has enjoyed the extraordinary benefits of the post-war European project, it is hard not to be deeply affected by...
The Battle of Monte Cassino project
The Second World War battle at Cassino occurred between December 1943 and May 1944. At times it involved over 30 different nationalities...
Rediscovering Pronnoi (Kefalonia)
The murky photos of medieval remains in Klavs Randsborg’s books on Kefalonia had long lingered in my mind, as had his sense that Pronnoi...
Eat, Pray and Love Rome: visit S. Crisogono
‘There's a power struggle going on across Europe these days. A few cities are competing against each other to see who shall emerge as the...
A slave to Baratti
Populonia towers over Baratti bay, the combination making this one of the idyllic places along Tuscany’s Tyrrhenian coastline. A...
A manifesto for Italy’s new government
Today’s Financial Times welcomes Professor Conte’s new Italian government cautiously. The cabinet brings together a mixture of populists...