Italian Hours Chapter 10 - Roman Rides Part 1

In which the narrator recounts the exquisite pleasure and poignant charm of riding through the Roman Campagna, capturing the interplay of light, landscape, and ancient ruins that lend the countryside a timeless and contemplative grace. An evocation both of serene solitude and vibrant, if fleeting, human encounters, these rides reveal a double life between the bustling modern city and the expansive, melancholic sweep of Italy’s rural heart.