Coming out of the opera Messalina on Satiurday night, November 20, all I could think to say were two words: Wow! And Whew! Messalina, a Venetian opera by Carlo Pallavicino, may be the wildest and ...

When I came to live in Fano, in the Marche region of Italy, some years ago, I discovered a small town steeped in history. Its founders had named it Fanum Fortunae, dedicating its temple to Fortuna the ...

Head of Zeus has signed classicist Honor Cargill-Martin’s debut non-fiction book Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery. Publisher Richard Millbank acquired world English-language rights ...

A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.