Francis Russell

He dreamed of a Europe after the pattern of his favorite book, Saint Augustine’s The City of God, a Europe made one in faith as well as territory, a greater Frankland where men would beat all swords into plowshares and all people would walk in the peaceable kingdom in the name of the Lord.

Like so many ancient cities, Perugia has long outgrown her early walls, and much of the new town is remorselessly ugly.

Verona has long haunted the English imagination.