Just loved reading this and it brought back so many memories of that part of Rome . I lived in 1973 for a year in a delightful small Pensione at number 50 Via del Babuino
you were very lucky.... 73 was among the wonderful years.... Im sure you will love Andre Aciman's latest book "Roman Year"... he was a student at NDI where I taught.
I didnt know there was a Penguin bookshop...maybe it was called Economy bookshop ? British Council library 's books were all sold (early 90s) to the University della Tuscia in Viterbo to form a core for their foreign language dept. Ill be coming to Elba in July on Azamara... hope to see you then.
Thanks, Mary Jane! Visited Rome only briefly in the 1980s, then again briefly in 2009. Since 2013 I have had longer stays and have fallen in love with it. I appreciate your memories and the details. One of the women in my book, Engaging Italy, first lived on Via Babuino. Anne Hampton Brewster was a journalist in Rome for 20 years. She was surrounded by expats, of course, and she loved dropping their names in the updates she sent back to the US from 1869 onward. How the area has changed since then!
Wonderful stories-- I knew next to nothing about Margaret Fuller or Maria Clementina Sobieska Stuart. So many ghosts lurking around Rome...
thanks for the Borgo Pio suggestions,I wil add to next week’s story-
Just loved reading this and it brought back so many memories of that part of Rome . I lived in 1973 for a year in a delightful small Pensione at number 50 Via del Babuino
you were very lucky.... 73 was among the wonderful years.... Im sure you will love Andre Aciman's latest book "Roman Year"... he was a student at NDI where I taught.
lots of cute apartments in my palazzo...and neighborhood
Ciao Mary Jane, thanks for the walk through Rome. Still Roma, but changed!
Is the Penguin bookshop still around? The British Council library? I spent hours there in the 70s.
Peter
I didnt know there was a Penguin bookshop...maybe it was called Economy bookshop ? British Council library 's books were all sold (early 90s) to the University della Tuscia in Viterbo to form a core for their foreign language dept. Ill be coming to Elba in July on Azamara... hope to see you then.
Thanks, Mary Jane! Visited Rome only briefly in the 1980s, then again briefly in 2009. Since 2013 I have had longer stays and have fallen in love with it. I appreciate your memories and the details. One of the women in my book, Engaging Italy, first lived on Via Babuino. Anne Hampton Brewster was a journalist in Rome for 20 years. She was surrounded by expats, of course, and she loved dropping their names in the updates she sent back to the US from 1869 onward. How the area has changed since then!
thanks for adding her - hope you come back soon , we have so much to talk about….
I would love to come spend a couple of weeks near you!! Maybe in the fall…