When in rome

No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from ...

The poet’s exasperation with his provincial upbringing

What did he think he was doing? The dazzling keyboard virtuoso Franz Liszt, toast of musical Europe, embarking on first one, then another, energy-sapping concert tour across swathes of Britain in 1840

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

The mythology of the ‘career open to talents’

FOUNDATIONS ROME BEFORE ROME The legends that ...