Share Any typos in this article shall be blamed on the typist’s incessant giggling. The Vatican’s Secret Archives—arguably the world’s largest historical research institution—contains some 52 miles of shelves, on which are stored things known and unknown: precious documents from the Middle Ages and earlier; manuscripts and artwork; papal bulls and stuccoed walls; letters [...]
ShareWhat’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. -Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) Today, my friends, two stories from the Land Down Under. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, two young teenagers—Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet—meet and fall in love. Their relationship is doomed from [...]







