Baths of Caracalla (Terme di Caracalla), Rome 2021 ... I only wish to be allowed to stay here - for ever and ever - never to see a soul; to buy a little paper and write a book, as Shelley did, in the Baths of Caractacus [Caracalla]. We went to Nemi yesterday-we rambled over the Campagna on Sunday. I suppose France is all right, and England is all right, but I have never seen anything so beautiful as this is. Figure us sitting in hot sunshine on the doorstep of a Roman ruin in a field with hawk coloured archways against a clear green grape coloured sky, silvery with mountains in the back ground. -Virginia Wolf's letter to Vanessa Bell (26 April 1927) Woolf's reference is to Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, which was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extending in ever-winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air'. It was inspired by Rome's 'bright blue sky and 'divinest climate', which 'drenches the spirits even to intoxication'. @jerry_stafford @markhusseybooks @rizzolibooks @fendi @mrkimjones #rome #thefendiset #virginiawoolf #vanessabell #percyshelley #bloomsburygroup #bathsofcaracalla #polaroid #expired #analogue #photography