…and City of Echoes has arrived, Jessica! Hugely forward to reading! 📖 #Rome #papacy #history ⁦Jessica Wärnberg⁩

I had great fun putting together this reading list on the theme of revolution for this month's issue History Today. From religious upheavals to Mao's Red Guards via 1848...

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This is so cool.

7am walk looking towards the old town.

Sometimes we all wish we had chosen a different career. The notary Giovanni di Tebaldo from #Florence probably dreamt of being a #knight & of achieving eternal glory. Instead, immortality came from his drawings (on the cover of a 1332 judicial register he kept) #Medievaltwitter

One month to publication and it's great to see a finished copy of The Roads To Rome!

I am pleased to have been reminded that, when he became pope, Pius XI appointed a man called Giovanni Malvestiti - = 'poorly dressed' - to take care of his clothing.

'In the summer of 1943 Pope Pius XII had rushed to the people. When four bombs fell on the Vatican in November, the people ran to him.'

An extract from CITY OF ECHOES: A NEW HISTORY OF ROME, ITS POPES, AND ITS PEOPLE by Jessica Wärnberg

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How quickly did I add this book by Jessica Wärnberg to my reading list. Anyone else think this looks fascinating?

Very much looking forward to attending this this evening, if only remotely.

Drinks with Karl Gustel Wärnberg and this incredible mosaic of Gustavus Adolphus at the City Hall earlier this evening.

Happy ‘Someone in #Pompeii Made Bread’ day!
Scratched into a wall, the graffito reads:

XIII K(alendas) Maias panem feci
On April 19, I made bread

– CIL IV 8792

I agree with every word of this beautifully written essay. It's not the absence of chapters or even sentences that unsettles readers, per se. Rather, Fosse unsettles and, soon, enchants, readers by immersing them in a profoundly accurate evocation of human thought and existence.