Addio, Roma

This is my last night in Rome. Ardent thanks to the American Academy in Rome for hosting me this past month, and, not incidentally, for giving me the view you see above; I have had the extreme good fortune of serving as the Academy's Marian and Andrew Heiskell Visiting Critic for the current term. I've stored up material for a few more Roman posts, not to mention two New Yorker articles and a chunk of Wagnerism, so the Italian accent will persist here a little longer.