The only eyewitness account of the two-day eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD handed down to us are two letters written by Pliny the Younger, a Roman lawyer, magistrate and author and sent to the historian Tacitus some 25 years after the disaster.
Confetti are traditionally almonds from Avola, a town in Sicily’s province of Syracuse, encased in a hard bite-size outer shell of sugar.
Since mid-February four new titles about pizza have appeared on bookstores’ shelves or to order on the internet.
In 2004 Egeria di Nallo, a prolific author and professor of anthropology, political science,
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