ALL BY MYSELF
I took great delight in swishing down the marble staircase, bowing to battered portrait busts, and I drew back curtains in quarters that were not mine to enter.
Allison Levy is Digital Scholarship Editor at Brown University. An art historian educated at Bryn Mawr College, she has held teaching appointments at University College London, Wheaton College, and Tulane University. Her new book is titled House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo.
I took great delight in swishing down the marble staircase, bowing to battered portrait busts, and I drew back curtains in quarters that were not mine to enter.