Historia Minuta

Venice on Ice

The Big Chill of 1929

Jan 5 • Historia Minuta

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December 2025

Two Girls in White

A portrait in Florence, a grave in Rome, and the memory that links them.

Dec 8, 2025 • Historia Minuta

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November 2025

The Empress's Suitcase

Habsburg jewels in a Quebec vault

Nov 10, 2025 • Historia Minuta

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October 2025

The Witch of Todi

The trial of Matteuccia di Francesco (1428)

Oct 30, 2025 • Historia Minuta

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How Did Cleopatra Die? Poison, Power, and Myth

The uncertain science of a queen’s last act

Oct 7, 2025 • Historia Minuta

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September 2025

Michelangelo’s Revenge: The Vatican Official Painted into Hell

A complaint about nudity turned into eternal damnation on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel.

Sep 16, 2025 • Historia Minuta

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When Caravaggio Threw a Plate at a Waiter in Rome

A quarrel over eight artichokes reveals the painter’s volatile temper in early 17th-century Rome.

Sep 2, 2025 • Historia Minuta

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August 2025

Tanaquil, Maker of Kings

Female Power in Royal Rome

Aug 20, 2025 • Historia Minuta

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July 2025

Pompeii, Mid-July

Notes from a slow walk among ruins, heat, and human traces

Jul 30, 2025 • Historia Minuta

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Along Route 144

Between snake charmers and tormented countesses, Roman armies on the march, and lakes that no longer exist

Jul 23, 2025 • Historia Minuta

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The Expert Commission

Berlin, 1904: when circus directors sat alongside scientists to judge a horse's intelligence

Jul 15, 2025 • Historia Minuta

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Proust's Duel

How a veiled insult turned into a fin de siècle social ritual

Jul 3, 2025 • Historia Minuta

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