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How Did Cleopatra Die? Poison, Power, and Myth

The uncertain science of a queen’s last act

Oct 7 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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August 2025

Tanaquil, Maker of Kings

Female Power in Royal Rome

Aug 20 • 

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July 2025

Pompeii, Mid-July

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

Jul 30 • 

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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 • 

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The Expert Commission

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

Jul 15 • 

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Proust's Duel

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

Jul 3 • 

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June 2025

When Bodies Cannot Touch

A Lover's Portrait from 1899

Jun 18 • 

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My "braghetta" is better than yours

A Gallery Of Renaissance Equipment

Jun 11 • 

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Agent H21

The rise and fall of Belle Époque Paris's most notorious femme fatale

Jun 11 • 

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Maybe Baby

How Contraception Transformed Victorian Society From Social Revolution to Women's Empowerment

Jun 11 • 

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