Beyond the Brushstrokes
'The Genius of Venice' at the Royal Academy, Winter 1983/4
Italy
Cicero as a Political Thinker
As a political thinker Cicero has been all manner of things to all manner of men. In order to understand Cicero's political ideas, however, we need to look at the world of Rome in the first century BC, argues J.B. Morrall.
Itinerant in Italy
Francis Watson looks at British travellers in Italy throughout the ages.
The Jews of Venice
The seventeenth-century Jews regarded Venice as 'the land of promise', where for a few generations they flourished almost free from constraint and prejudice.