Valeria Pugliese
Pre-Raphaelite Fetishism
In the past few weeks, I have been largely exposed to Burlesque: a live performance, compulsive lingerie shopping, a bejewelled Victorian...
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Valeria Pugliese
- Aug 9
- 5 min
Heliogabalus: Ode to Anarchy
One month ago I was in Rome. When in Rome, in almost a 40 degrees inferno, I prioritised my visit to the Capitoline Museums; no one...
Valeria Pugliese
- Jun 4
- 4 min
'Ancora & Ancora' (More & More)
May 2023: celebrating the entrance into my late (very late) twenties with a self-indulgent, sybaritic escape to Sicily. Sicily, ah, my...
Valeria Pugliese
- Apr 16
- 2 min
Opium Dream
Monsieur de Phocas, Jean Lorrain: mid-February, I savoured this book to the end. The weekend after I meandered across the British Museum,...
Valeria Pugliese
- Jan 26
- 5 min
'Infiniti Auguri alla Nomade'
A celebration of Luisa Casati 142th birthday Memento Mori Sunday 22nd January 2023. It is an arctic early morning in Brompton Cemetery....
Valeria Pugliese
- Dec 15, 2022
- 3 min
A nose crisis, anemoia & AI
After coming back from Egypt and what has been a 12-day-long immersion in ancient Egyptian figurative arts, the twisted perspective of...
Valeria Pugliese
- Sep 28, 2021
- 12 min
The Yellow Book: a Nineties Nostalgia
A Nineties Nostalgia "You poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. Harry, promise me that you will never lend that book...
Valeria Pugliese
- Feb 8, 2021
- 16 min
The piercing Beauty of Saint Sebastian
20th January 2021, slightly over two weeks ago, was Saint Sebastian’s name day. The parish church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Ciminna...
Valeria Pugliese
- Dec 8, 2020
- 6 min
Introducing Philippe Jullian and my latest reading: Flight into Egypt
I have been a Philippe Jullian affectionate reader and vintage book collector for approximately three years. Philippe Jullian (1919 -...
Valeria Pugliese
- Nov 17, 2020
- 6 min
Villa Palagonia: the Villa of Monsters
I have got sweet memories about Bagheria: childhood years at the nursery school, the wandering strolls in Corso Umberto I, the...
Valeria Pugliese
- Oct 16, 2020
- 6 min
Aubrey Beardsley: Tate Britain Exhibition
Today, 16th October 2020, London is entering into Tier 2 lock-down. Weekend is coming and I am, this is my new tormented Friday evening...
Valeria Pugliese
- Oct 11, 2020
- 5 min
The Abbey of Thelema: Aleister Crowley in Cefalù
After frustrating months locked in my London flat, my flights have FINALLY not been cancelled; I traveled to Sicily, where I spent two...
Valeria Pugliese
- Oct 7, 2020
- 3 min
Preface: welcome to DeMerteuil.com
Disclaimer: this first blog post may contain newbie engagement awkwardness. Well, good evening and welcome to DeMerteuil.com. My name is...
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