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Freedberg's love and care for Renaissance art pre-dated his years of teaching at Harvard. While serving in the U.S. Army during the Second World War, Freedberg refused to cooperate in gathering information on Rome out of fear that the data would be used in military operations against the city and lead to the destruction of its art treasures...
...Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature R.J. Tarrant, commenting on Lowell Lecture Hall after delivering in Latin Cicero's famous speech from 63 B.C.E. denouncing Catiline for plotting against the government in Literature and Arts C-61: "The Rome of Augustus...
...While we have fiddled, Rome has burned," Burke said...
From his vantage point in Rome, where he has lived for two years, Leavitt views the Esquire flap with a mixture of irritation and bemusement. "I wish the story had been published," he says, sipping a cup of cappuccino at a Neapolitan cafe near the Chamber of Deputies. "I think it would have gotten a lot of attention as a story, and not as a news story." He doubts that any automobile ads would have been pulled from the magazine if his story had appeared in its pages. "Do you know how many gay men own Jeeps...
...hours) moves along economically, dwelling on no single aspect of a person's life but rather cramming in the whole cradle-to-grave (or cradle-to-this-minute) story. While a filmmaker could produce an entire documentary on the subject of, say, Attila the Hun's retreat from Rome, Biography's look at the 5th century conqueror spends scarcely one minute examining that historic event. Compensation comes in the details offered about Attila's life, like the fact that as an expression of his humility, he ate only from wooden bowls rather than kingly pewter...