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Locals, migrants and visitors in the Rome of today.
A satanist sect and a has-been writer crash a tycoon’s lavish party in a Rome park.
A year in Rome with newborn twins, as a writer walks the city and its past.
79–64 BC: Cicero’s rise through the courts and backrooms of republican Rome.
A symbologist races through Rome’s churches to save the Vatican’s conclave.
1941–47: a widow and her son struggle through bombed Rome.
Twenty hours on the Paris–Rome train, as a man rethinks leaving his wife.
1940s: boys from Rome’s postwar slums live by petty theft on the city’s edges.
A screenwriter’s marriage falls apart during a film shoot in Rome and Capri.
2nd century: the dying emperor Hadrian looks back on his life and on Rome.
A swindle claims the Pope is held prisoner in the Vatican’s cellars.
AD 64: Nero’s Rome burns, and a Roman officer falls for a Christian girl.
A young French priest comes to Rome to defend his book before the Vatican.
Stendhal’s walks through Rome: churches, gossip and ruins.
1950s: two girls grow up in a poor, violent neighbourhood of Naples.
Inside the Camorra, the crime clans that run Naples and its hinterland.
1944: a British intelligence officer’s diary of Naples just after liberation.
Naples under Allied occupation: starving, corrupt and burning with life.