Reflections June 2022
The improving Bardini
On art restorers and dealers in Florence.
On art restorers and dealers in Florence.
On efforts to reclaim the Guelph Treasure.
On the eighteenth-century English novelist.
On the author’s final years in England.
On the series of novels by C. S. Forster.
On Sophie Scholl and young German resistance fighters.
On the new Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
On a discovery of fifteenth-century Venetian glass beads in Alaska.
On the British spy novelist.
On Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler.