Blog: Discover Italy

Does anyone else out there have a child who has a favorite Roman Emperor? I am assuming probably not. My daughter became obsessed with the Roman Emperor Commodus after watching Ridley Scott’s Gladiator starring Russell Crowe. On a recent trip to Rome, while visiting the Vatican Museum we wandered into a gallery of Roman sculpture. All of the sudden, my daughter went running down the room, yelling, “There’s Commodus”. In a room full of hundreds of Roman busts and statues, …