That photo of Roderi is priceless! I’m adding Monteverde to my list of places to go in Rome and this book series to my reading list (even though you’re not exactly raving about them). I’d like to add panzzallária to my vocabulary but probably no one here would understand it. What the heck, I’ll try it! Thanks for another fun and informative post!
Oh, no, the books ARE great, absolutely, otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned them — I just didn't want to give too much away because, after all, they're mystery books, if I tell you WHODUNNIT then what's the point of reading them? 😅
Oh good! I wasn’t sure how much you’d read yet! Do you like Fred Vargas’ books? She does crime fiction with a poetic/literary bent; her characters are so well drawn.
I've read some, not all of them, just a few of those with Commissario Adamsberg in it (I've read them in Italian, must start reading in French, too, otherwise I'll never build a decent lexicon in that language!)
Great piece. Wishing you cooler temperatures! MC Escher also lived in my city Arnhem in The Netherlands. The local school was the inspiration for his famous staircase work!
Escher was indeed from the Netherlands, he lived in Rome (in the same street, via Poerio, from where bus 75 begins its route...) for over a decade, from mid-1920s to mid-1930s ☺️
That photo of Roderi is priceless! I’m adding Monteverde to my list of places to go in Rome and this book series to my reading list (even though you’re not exactly raving about them). I’d like to add panzzallária to my vocabulary but probably no one here would understand it. What the heck, I’ll try it! Thanks for another fun and informative post!
Oh, no, the books ARE great, absolutely, otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned them — I just didn't want to give too much away because, after all, they're mystery books, if I tell you WHODUNNIT then what's the point of reading them? 😅
Oh good! I wasn’t sure how much you’d read yet! Do you like Fred Vargas’ books? She does crime fiction with a poetic/literary bent; her characters are so well drawn.
I've read some, not all of them, just a few of those with Commissario Adamsberg in it (I've read them in Italian, must start reading in French, too, otherwise I'll never build a decent lexicon in that language!)
Great piece. Wishing you cooler temperatures! MC Escher also lived in my city Arnhem in The Netherlands. The local school was the inspiration for his famous staircase work!
Escher was indeed from the Netherlands, he lived in Rome (in the same street, via Poerio, from where bus 75 begins its route...) for over a decade, from mid-1920s to mid-1930s ☺️