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"It's possible it already has been sent to the Vatican, and it's been put on ice over the summer," Palmo added, referring to Rome's traditional summer holiday that begins Aug. 1 and runs through mid-September when the Vatican's Congregation of Bishops will resume its work, including reviewing new bishop appointments.

All Stories 2011

That soft-core Spartacus series is popular on pay-cable -- and now The Eagle is the second film in the past two years that seems to deal with Rome's lost Ninth Legion, which disappeared into the northern wilds of second-century Britain.

Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Eagle Marshall Fine 2011

Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY Giovanni Paolo Panini's "Ancient Rome" Neoclassic Texas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sunday through May 30 Giovanni Paolo Panini's "Ancient Rome," seen in a detail, is a kind of 1757 tour of Rome's sights, painted for a count shown toward the bottom with a guidebook.

Don't Miss: March 19-25 2011

Located by the Porta San Pancrazio on Rome's Janiculum Hill, the museum recounts the history of an attempt at secular, republican government, which started in February 1849 and lasted barely five months.

A Nation of Racing Drivers Speeds Ahead Francis X. Rocca 2011

Regional governors previously loyal to the prime minister queued up to bemoan the fallout for local services, with Lombardy's governor, Roberto Formigoni, calling the cuts "unsustainable", Veneto governor Luca Zaia denouncing them as a "mistake" and Rome's mayor, Gianni Alemanno, describing them as "unacceptable".

Berlusconi fights for political life after new austerity measures spark wave of anger 2011

Rome's season was ended, too, with a four-game suspension by the league.

Playoff Fireworks, Minus the Stargazing Jason Gay 2011

The first in a new series of volumes from the American Academy in Rome's Sustainable Food Project, "Biscotti" is small but comprehensive, comprising 50 mostly traditional recipes for the treats best loved by the Academy's friends, students and workers the authors are both employed there.

Bits & Bites: (Italian) News You Can Eat 2011

Coriolanus Films Ltd. A still from "Coriolanus" Coriolanus is a patrician Roman general turned consul, whose love of victory is only outmatched by his loathing of Rome's plebeian mob.

Ralph Fiennes's 'Samurai' Coriolanus J. S. Marcus 2011

Julius Caesar: Inventing an Image What can we learn from the images of Rome's all-powerful?

Ideas Calendar: March 26-April 1 2011

Having betrayed Rome's betrayers, he ends up dying a traitor's death regardless.

Ralph Fiennes's 'Samurai' Coriolanus J. S. Marcus 2011