Spare a thought for King Henry VI. Orlando Shakes returns to England’s War of the Roses with “Henry VI, Part 2: She-Wolf of France,” and it’s a rip-roaring royal rebellion of a time.
It is because he is a Roman who absorbed his heritage from infancy, the way Romulus and Remus, the descendants of Aeneas, suckled in Rome’s essence from the Capitoline She-Wolf, whose statue ...
St. Irene of Rome was the widow of the martyr Saint Castulus, a Roman military officer who was killed for spreading the Christian faith in 286. She lived in the Roman Empire during the reign of ...
Its gems, now spread through two palazzi on Michelangelo’s Piazza del Campidoglio, include Rome's emblem (the bronze she-wolf), Bernini's remarkable statue of Pope Urban VIII, a picture gallery ...
Usually, she wore a diadem and held a sceptre ... which could be wreathed with laurel as a sign of peace, and accompanied by a wolf and a woodpecker, animals revered by the Romans. According to ...
Battista, the medical student in Rome who was evicted, said her frantic search for another place not far from the city center took five months. She now pays double what she did before. Not so long ...
A brief introduction to Rome's football derby. Today, the city plays host to one of Europe's fiercest football rivalries, the Derby Della Capitale between A.S. Roma and S.S. Lazio. It has provided ...
Ignoring the humble dusky nave, she led me straight to the church’s crowning glory: the apse mosaic of the enthroned Christ, commonly considered Rome’s oldest Christian mosaic. “The faces ...
After living triple the average wolf’s lifespan, Yellowstone National Park’s famed Wolf 907F died Christmas Day. She succumbed to injuries she suffered in a fight with other wolves a few days earlier.