Sam Rossi is the pseudonym of a writer from the United States who lives in Italy.
One of the first major cultural contrasts I was warned about as an American studying in Rome was the vastly…
Publius Ovidius Naso, known today as Ovid, was a Roman poet of great acclaim and some infamy. His works remain…
Pliny the Elder, a Roman statesman and writer, lived during the 1st Century CE. He died, famously, during the eruption…
When I first arrived in Rome to attend university last summer, I was surprised by both the widespread cigarette smoking…