Rome Beckons Me Back
The first time I visited Rome, I was nine years old. Throughout the year, my mother would…
Places
What Italy Meant to Them: English Grand Tour Travelers and Charles Dickens
Upper-class Europeans and North Americans have always ranked Italy at the top of their…
To Market, To Market – the Mercato Experience in Italy
The Mercato is an Italian tradition that goes back centuries. Once a week, travelling…
Where Italy’s Most Famous Are Buried
Every year millions of tourists visit the city of Florence and flock to the Uffizi…
Dining With the Gods – A Travel Essay
After almost half a century living in Toronto’s Little Italy, I make a return journey…
Ottawa’s “Village”
Cars, trucks, and heavy transports bustle down the busy thoroughfare known as Preston…
Ottawa’s Little Italy Revives Street Art As It Revives Itself
Ottawa’s Preston Street developed its Italian-Canadian identity well before the 1950s,…
Calabria in Mind
Intellectuals, too, take vacations, and they generally don’t look askance to venues off…
Why I Sometimes Don’t Wear Shoes
What I’ve Learned From Fishing All Summer Long The other day I visited my…
Biodiversity and the “Gnoseosphere”
The vertical garden, climbing up the north wall of the Department of Foreign Languages,…