look at this magnificent axis!

I played in the gardens of some old, dead rich people

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November 5th 2005
so yesterday we went to caprarola, some little village to the north of rome. we went there to look at the palazzo of the farnese family, who were a bunch of really rich people who lived in rome and had a pope amongst their lot. they also have a palace here in rome, but it is very rarely open, maybe twice a year. it was open a couple months ago, and one of my professor's wife saw me on the stree ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more