18 FEBRUARY 2006, page 64

What A Carve Up

Taki Ancona I am here on a pilgrimage, honouring the descendants of this greatest of Italian towns, men like Galileo, Michelangelo, Dante and, of course, Matthew d’Ancona,......

Shedding Light

Jeremy Clarke T here’s a stone-built shed in our garden. The floor is cobbled with smooth pebbles collected from the beach 150 years ago when the shed was built. Likewise, the......