Rome Through the Mist:

Welcome to my site! If you’re visiting because you’re a regular reader of Italia! Magazine, or perhaps of German Life Magazine, it’s great to meet you again. You’ll already know that Patricia Gartman, my photographer-wife, supplies superb images for my magazine pieces, and now for a brand-new book as well! If you just stumbled upon the site, though, I do hope you’ll stick around. You can sample a selection of my magazine pieces by clicking “Articles”, and “Photo Gallery” will take you to a collection of Patricia’s images.

From the top of Brunelleschi’s dome to the Greek temples in Sicily, you’ll find a variety of subjects here:  A murder solved after 700 years, a painting that saved a town, why you don’t need water-bottles in Rome, what great poet is buried under a gravestone with no name, what music was playing as the Venetian Republic fell, and how an ancient sarcophagus helped inspire the Renaissance.

Please feel free to send me any thoughts, comments, or queries you have – just click on “Contact” in the menu.