"'Don't bother,' I said, sinking into my bed. The IV was like ice in my veins. 'Tell me about Rome.'
'All right,' he said, and he began to talk very quietly about the lovely Etruscan terracottas in the Villa Giulia, and the lily pools and the fountains in the nymphaeum outside it; about the Villa Borghese and the Colosseum, the view from the Palatine Hill early in the morning, and how beautiful the Baths of Caracalla must have been in Roman times, with the marbles and the libraries and the big circular calidarium, and the frigidarium, with its great empty pool, that was there even now, and probably a lot of other things besides but I don't remember because I fell asleep."
- from The Secret History by Donna Tart

Back from an exhausting but engaging tour of Rome, and now my photos are available for your perusal here. Hopefully they will whet your appetite for the DVD of Rome: Birth of Capital, coming this Fall.