All Posts by Nigel McGilchrist

I’ve lived and worked in Italy, Greece, and Turkey for almost 30 years. An art historian by training, I’ve served as director of the Anglo-Italian Institute in Rome, taught at the University of Rome, and been dean of European Studies for Rhodes College and the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee. I’m also on the board of editors of the Blue Guides series and have contributed to several new editions on Italy. Over the last seven years I’ve walked every path and village of the inhabited Greek Islands for the new Blue Guide of its archaeology, history, and ecology, which was released in September 2010 and named one of the best books of the year by The Economist. I live near Orvieto, Italy, where I produce my own olive oil and red wine.