The Past Is Any Guide to the Future

Rome has become kind of a fossil, a university town, cultural centre. Milan is where the action is. But how come there aren't all these great monuments in milan? I got to think that a lot of the talent went east. When constantine builds constantinople and says, in effect, this is the place, i think it's got to attract a lot of money. There's nothing really like that in the west. The roman empire for a long time when it really needed to have the right kind of leadership. You know, it just had a long reign of an emperor who really didn't know what he was doing. And then in fighting in the elite