Quatremère de Quincy's letter to defend Roman cultural heritage
More than 200 years ago, in the heat of French Revolution, the art theorist Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy wrote an enlightened letter probably addressed to military ...A poem on the Colosseum by Edgar Allan Poe
Timeless voices still echo within the ruins of the Flavian Amphitheater: that ones of the people who rejoiced, suffered or gazed there in wonder, and ...The first Roman elegy by J. W. von Goethe
When Goethe arrived in Rome on the 29th October 1786, a blissful wonder overwhelmed his eyes: he had finally achieved his long-lasting desire to ve ...
