Valeria Pugliese
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Art & Anthropology Disclaimer This article should have been posted back in November 2023. My blog goes through cyclical phases of...
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Valeria Pugliese
Sep 25, 20235 min read
Pre-Raphaelite Fetishism
In the past few weeks, I have been largely exposed to Burlesque: a live performance, compulsive lingerie shopping, a bejewelled Victorian...
Valeria Pugliese
Aug 9, 20235 min read
Heliogabalus: Ode to Anarchy
One month ago I was in Rome. When in Rome, in almost a 40 degrees inferno, I prioritised my visit to the Capitoline Museums; no one...
Valeria Pugliese
Jun 4, 20234 min read
'Ancora & Ancora' (More & More)
May 2023: celebrating the entrance into my late (very late) twenties with a self-indulgent, sybaritic escape to Sicily. Sicily, ah, my...
Valeria Pugliese
Apr 24, 20238 min read
Mid-April Paraphernalia
The first two weeks of April 2023 have been 'heterogeneous', an extravagant amalgamation of Beauty, aesthetic exploration, death,...
Valeria Pugliese
Apr 16, 20232 min read
Opium Dream
Monsieur de Phocas, Jean Lorrain: mid-February, I savoured this book to the end. The weekend after I meandered across the British Museum,...
Valeria Pugliese
Jan 26, 20235 min read
'Infiniti Auguri alla Nomade'
A celebration of Luisa Casati 142th birthday Memento Mori Sunday 22nd January 2023. It is an arctic early morning in Brompton Cemetery....
Valeria Pugliese
Dec 15, 20223 min read
A nose crisis, anemoia & AI
After coming back from Egypt and what has been a 12-day-long immersion in ancient Egyptian figurative arts, the twisted perspective of...
Valeria Pugliese
Sep 28, 202112 min read
The Yellow Book: a Nineties Nostalgia
A Nineties Nostalgia "You poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. Harry, promise me that you will never lend that book...
Valeria Pugliese
Feb 8, 202116 min read
The piercing Beauty of Saint Sebastian
20th January 2021, slightly over two weeks ago, was Saint Sebastian’s name day. The parish church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Ciminna...
Valeria Pugliese
Dec 30, 202010 min read
À rebours: a "fin du globe" taste for Beauty
The year is dying. I am held captive in a Tier 4 lockdown London. Spleen has been devouring me. My ennui led me to acute political...
Valeria Pugliese
Dec 8, 20206 min read
Introducing Philippe Jullian and my latest reading: Flight into Egypt
I have been a Philippe Jullian affectionate reader and vintage book collector for approximately three years. Philippe Jullian (1919 -...
Valeria Pugliese
Nov 27, 20204 min read
"L'Heure Verte": Absinthe, my first time
I took part to masquerade ball on 2019-2020 NYE; I dressed up as the Marchesa Luisa Casati and, I must say, fiery red finger waves quite...
Valeria Pugliese
Nov 17, 20206 min read
Villa Palagonia: the Villa of Monsters
I have got sweet memories about Bagheria: childhood years at the nursery school, the wandering strolls in Corso Umberto I, the...
Valeria Pugliese
Oct 16, 20206 min read
Aubrey Beardsley: Tate Britain Exhibition
Today, 16th October 2020, London is entering into Tier 2 lock-down. Weekend is coming and I am, this is my new tormented Friday evening...
Valeria Pugliese
Oct 11, 20205 min read
The Abbey of Thelema: Aleister Crowley in Cefalù
After frustrating months locked in my London flat, my flights have FINALLY not been cancelled; I traveled to Sicily, where I spent two...
Valeria Pugliese
Oct 7, 20203 min read
Preface: welcome to DeMerteuil.com
Disclaimer: this first blog post may contain newbie engagement awkwardness. Well, good evening and welcome to DeMerteuil.com. My name is...
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