ET Ἀρκαδία IN ACADEMIA OR ARCADIA, ERGO EGO

Just in time for the Poussin exhibit and a much-planned chilled coffee at the expensively bucolic Caffé Greco, the antique dealer's daughter's dealt a last-minute invitation to the Enlightenment-era academy of Arcadians you could tumble into down this hill were it not for the security cameras: where one isn't sure what's Rome and what reproduction, production and performance, portrait and slavish nostalgia: the aspiration toward Rome, or Arcadia, or some impossibly confused version of the two in Cartesian autotranslation, being inherently part of this topos itself—the whole as marble law, grotto, theater and library now rented (forza Roma!) by a soccer star.