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...authored seminal texts on subjects ranging from early Renaissance Italian art to the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes...
Gardens are often washed away by floods, but Villa Gregoriana, which reopened last month in Tivoli, Italy, was actually created by one. Rescued from abandonment by the Italian Environment Foundation (FAI), the vertical garden (there's actually no villa) offers one of the most romantic walks in Europe. It winds through luxuriant wooded paths, natural grottoes and ancient ruins, and leads to a spectacular 120-m waterfall. The landscape, featuring 2nd century B.C. architecture, inspired such 17th and 18th century artists as Nicolas Poussin and Jean-Honor? Fragonard, and became a must-see stop on the Grand Tour. Later, Villa...
...James Joyce was a latter-day Colonna, Eco is the modern incarnation of Plutarch, the Ancient Greek essayist, public thinker and iconoclast. Eco writes regular columns for the Italian weekly L'Espresso and for the daily newspaper La Repubblica, tackling themes such as the mass media and the history of philosophy - sometimes turning his fire on George W. Bush and his country's own premier, Silvio Berlusconi, both of whom he scorns for conservative policy and arrogant leadership. His long sojourns in the U.S., including teaching stints at Harvard and Yale, have helped form his perspective. "I feel profoundly European...
...world. "Nine o'clock. Mr. Excitement here is sound asleep and I'm watching Desperate Housewives ... I said to him the other day, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in the world, you're going to have to stay up later.'" Veronica Lario, the second wife of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, doesn't always play along with the idyllic family image her husband likes to project. Asked by a journalist if she saw and spoke to her busy husband often, Lario, who admits to voting for the opposition, replied, "Yes, I not only speak...
Brentwood Flats is a microcosm. In one case, a buyer paid $745,000 for a humble 70-year-old, three-bedroom house in 2003. It was promptly ripped down, and 18 months later the two-story, five-bedroom Italian villa erected in its place sold for $2.7 million. Around the corner, one lot has changed hands three times in four years. Its original two-bedroom Southern Colonial went for $567,000 in 2000; the four-bedroom traditional that replaced it brought more than $2 million last August...