The late Mario Praz—dandy, scholar, eccentric chronicler of interior- decorating styles through the ages—once observed that human beings could be divided into those who cared about such things and ...

Signor Mario praz is a professor of English literature at the University of Rome, who was previously for ten years a professor of Italian literature in England. He published in 1925 an interesting ...

Now a museum, the flat is where professor Praz lived from 1969 to 1982, when he died. The collection, however, was originally assembled for a larger apartment at Palazzo Ricci in via Giulia, his ...