Rome in August. Only the tourists and the feral cats are left. Fugitive from the heat, I take sanctuary in the Villa Borghese. Beyond its heavy doors, the squeak of trainers and the smell of beeswax. In a wedding cake of a room, a sculpture in white marble: A youthful Apollo chases a naked Daphne. [...]
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A visit to the Sistine Chapel, 1511
You’ll find my master on the scaffold there: Flat on his back, with paint streaks in his hair. This labour’s how he earns his daily bread; A marriage of convenience. He’s been wed For three long winters to this shrewish wife, Who’s had ten thousand hours of his life. But every dusk, as night crowds [...]
