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Written in a thankfully empty train carriage, wending north from Rome to Florence, having walked the streets of that sun-roasted city from the early morning, and finding myself in the heat of the day in the cool of the Capitoline Museum, gazing at the marble heads of Caesar and Sulla, Marius and Agrippa, and realizing, looking at their faces that each w…

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