“Is it still there?” I asked.
“The Villa Casale? Oh, yes, and much of it has been restored. It was rediscovered a long time ago, but excavation and recovery didn’t begin in earnest until the early Twentieth Century. It had been known as the Villa Casale, but if you go looking for it at this point, you should search for the Villa Romana del Casale, the name attached to it by the archeologists.”
I added that to my journal for later research.
“Ancient Rome is known for many things,” Vito continued, “including conquests and building, the aqueducts and the legal system, but the mosaics tell us about the people who designed them, the culture they cherished, and the craft that preserved them. In Sicily, along with the wonderful Greek temples, there are mosaics as fine as those found in Italy i
