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"A cautionary tale of a sexy girl on the go in swinging Rome. Nineteen-year-old Stefania Sandrelli imbues her bubbly ingenue with undertones of desolation. The camera stays very close to her and records every nuance of her passing moods in a palpable way, as she is exploited over and over while managing to maintain a fragile dignity."

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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)

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Known as "L'uccello dalle Piume di Cristallo" in its home country of Italy, the film follows an...

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MILANO by Daniele Luppi / Parquet Courts

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For 2011’s Rome, Italian composer Daniele Luppi teamed with Danger Mouse, Jack White, and Norah...

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Jun 12, 2025

"Ovid hopes for a return to Rome - only to discover that he is under threat from an enemy much closer to home."

Excerpt: Death and The Poet (The Publius Ovidius Mysteries #2) by Fiona Forsyth - #TheCoffeePotBookClub, #BlogTour, #Historical, #Mystery, available in #KindleUnlimited,

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Along Prehistoric Lines: Neolithic, Iron Age and Romano-British Activity at the Former MoD Headquarters, Durrington, Wiltshire

Steve Thompson and Andrew Powell

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CD ROM Information Containing Music Video by Mel Vondrau

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Night White Skies

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Join Sean Lally in conversation about architecture’s future, as both earth’s environment and our...

Blood and Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)

Anne Rice

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Here is the glorious and sinister life of Marius: patrician by birth, scholar by choice and one of...

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David McK (3857 KP) rated Midnight Falcon (The Rigante, #2) in Books

Sep 26, 2025

Midnight Falcon (The Rigante, #2)

David Gemmell | 1999 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.7

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The second of David Gemmell's Rigante stories, this one is pretty much a direct follow-on from Sword in the Storm, but now following Connavar's illegitimate son Bane instead of Connavar himself.

As before, it's also very much a Scottish highlands / Rome type of deal, with Band initially driven out of his homeland and travelling to the city of Stone (very much 'our' Rome in its Julius Caesar heyday) where he becomes a Gladiator, all so he can get revenge on the man he believes has killed the love of his life (met after being driven out).

Of course, as a Gemmell work, it's not as simple as that, with the finale of this 'tying back' to the very beginning of the previous work.

As with pretty much all Gemmell, well worth a read.