When in Rome . . .
A conversation with Scott Samuelson, friend, philosopher, and the author, most recently, of “Rome As a Guide to the Good Life."
By Michael Judge
There’s a scene in Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino‘s 2013 masterpiece “The Great Beauty” where Jep, an aging writer who’s lost his muse, happens upon a giraffe in the heart of Rome—a real giraffe, towering above the Baths of Caracalla like Venus herself. The g…
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