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Art & Anthropology Disclaimer This article should have been posted back in November 2023. My blog goes through cyclical phases of...

In the past few weeks, I have been largely exposed to Burlesque: a live performance, compulsive lingerie shopping, a bejewelled Victorian...

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...

May 2023: celebrating the entrance into my late (very late) twenties with a self-indulgent, sybaritic escape to Sicily. Sicily, ah, my...

The first two weeks of April 2023 have been 'heterogeneous', an extravagant amalgamation of Beauty, aesthetic exploration, death,...

Monsieur de Phocas, Jean Lorrain: mid-February, I savoured this book to the end. The weekend after I meandered across the British Museum,...

A celebration of Luisa Casati 142th birthday Memento Mori Sunday 22nd January 2023. It is an arctic early morning in Brompton Cemetery....

After coming back from Egypt and what has been a 12-day-long immersion in ancient Egyptian figurative arts, the twisted perspective of...

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...

20th January 2021, slightly over two weeks ago, was Saint Sebastian’s name day. The parish church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Ciminna...

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...

I have been a Philippe Jullian affectionate reader and vintage book collector for approximately three years. Philippe Jullian (1919 -...

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...

I have got sweet memories about Bagheria: childhood years at the nursery school, the wandering strolls in Corso Umberto I, the...

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...

After frustrating months locked in my London flat, my flights have FINALLY not been cancelled; I traveled to Sicily, where I spent two...

Disclaimer: this first blog post may contain newbie engagement awkwardness. Well, good evening and welcome to DeMerteuil.com. My name is...