The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18c (part 4)
The discussion of the events of the Muslim conquest fills many a page of Eutychius. I confess that it doesn’t excite me. Much of the material seems written with an eye to the events, not of the 7th...
View ArticleWhere do you go to, my hateful?
Where have all the atheist forums (sic) gone? I was reading Twitter earlier this evening, and did a search on “atheism”. I found some stale jeering, a few self-important or foolish tweets; and a mass...
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I brought this back from Italy, my boy! – paintings from the Villa Negroni
Last weekend I visited Ickworth House in Suffolk, the family home of the Marquess of Bristol. An earlier Lord Bristol travelled to Italy on the Grand Tour, and brought back with him a taste for...
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An early account of the Roman villa at the Villa Negroni in Rome
Pre-scientific accounts of archaeology can be very vague. The 1777 discovery of a magnificent Roman house, near what is now Termini station in Rome, is naturally not properly documented. It does not...
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A visit to the Roman house at the Villa Negroni
Imagine that the year is 1777. Let’s go to the open fields to the east of the Baths of Diocletian. I hear that a Roman house has been discovered in the fields of the Villa Negroni! The house lies...
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The Bloodsucker Award, July 2016 – the Royal Institute of British Architects
In my last post, I quoted the Tate Gallery catalogue for Thomas Jones’ 1777 painting of the excavations of the Roman house in the Villa Negroni. This referred to drawings and a plan by a certain...
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A visit to the ancient Roman house in the Villa Negroni – rooms A and B
Let’s return to 1777, and continue our visit to the ancient Roman house uncovered in the fields of the Villa Negroni. We shall descend into the pit, ably drawn by our English friend Thomas Jones. It’s...
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A curious bibliography: Angelo Uggeri and his “Journées pittoresques”,...
The most accessible early account, of the discovery of an ancient house in the grounds of the Villa Negroni in Rome, is by Camillo Massimo in 1836. But for his source, Massimo refers to a mysterious...
View ArticleThe new Chronica Tertullianea et Cyprianea is out
Those interested in the Latin fathers prior to Nicaea will be aware of the annual list of publications, the Chronica Tertullianea et Cyprianea, published each year in the Revue des études...
View ArticleCatenas on the Psalms – two important French works now online!
Great news! A correspondent writes to say that two important French works on commentaries and catenae on the Psalms are now available online in full: 1) M.-J. Rondeau, Les Commentaires patristiques du...
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