https://www.ripariapublications.com/latest daily 1.0 2025-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1525278686221-I5PLT9FQ7UB5EFAXELZS/ADA-F-002905-0000.jpg What's New https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1755789359414-SHMHE9NJXMZJ1WFG4ML0/image-asset.jpeg What's New - So, I wrote this play... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1726159028146-CYXV99W67U50BF55I9BO/image-asset.jpeg What's New Come say "salve!" and buy my books at this fun event near Sacramento, CA on October 12th. All my titles will be available– I may even have a copy of my new non-fiction book on the Keicho Mission, if it arrives in time – and there will be a book giveaway, pencils, pads, and fab "Finds & Keepers" pins! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1722897102333-MY27LMWXEK0VX7JQTHYC/Lucchese_2ndCover.jpg What's New - COMING THIS SEPTEMBER ! AT LONG LAST the English-language version of my book on Date Masamune's Keicho Mission will be available THIS FALL from Rowman & Littlefield. See the separate link to ORDER YOURS NOW! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1675368703805-L426XDVQ7AQS26F4GV74/image-asset.jpeg What's New - WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS... Spent January 2023 at the American Academy Library in Rome, researching life ways and means in Rome of the Antonines. All the juicy details I gathered are grist for the Ourania mill… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1568821996039-WZW9FXMJXKCM1VLK62JU/Kate%27s+Apple.jpg What's New - ARTIST STATEMENT / WRITER DRAWING Artists must frequently provide an “Artist Statement” explaining their creative ethos and motivation. It is only logical, however, that a writer should provide a drawing. In my this, my drawing-manifesto, I espouse a writing which is universally appealing yet locationally specific, full of color and dimension, and bright with lifelike highlights; privileging the tasty, quotidian, and generous over the foul, strange and cruel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1538500855457-NSP2BFVFS8UJCL91TEHP/ca+coast+2.jpg What's New - "Japan and the Tornaviaje: the Black Current and Spanish Domination of the Pacific" So reads the ambitious title (and abstract) for the paper I’ll be giving later this month at the WCAAS (check out the details on my Daimyo and Saint Facebook page!), but it has been most instructive to write. I am reminded that General Sebastian Vizcaino was more than the bete noire of the Keicho Mission, he was also its catalyst! Here is the 1602 portolan chart of the coast of California made by Vizcaino’s cosmographers, not published by Spanish authorities until 1802, when the English were trying to claim the coast for themselves. (Map 37 in Hayes, Derek, 2001. Historical Atlas of the North Pacific Ocean, Maps of Discovery and Scientific Exploration 1500-2000. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, under the auspices of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1624896874284-2Y6TIZSWZ0KRFOXYBD8D/SendaiTalk+header.jpg What's New - Now available on Amazon...and soon at Barnes & Noble! First in the “Finds & Keepers” series of three archaeological adventures (“Urban Fantasy Romance”) from DLG Publishing Partners LLC, San Antonio, TX, my very first published novel, is out NOW. Books 2 & 3 in the series, Deep Scansion and Place of Sacrifice are due to be released by the end of the summer and the end of the year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1525280323294-FPNTYN0IO46OL27ALH1C/nicholas+copy.jpg What's New - Saint Nicholas Turns Up on Clip Art See the Folk Like Me blog for a special treat: a Chapel-length play about Saint Nicholas in honor of this fine piece of Cathy Rylander’s artwork from Folk Like Me turning up on a Saint Nicholas clip-art site. Blog has more details! Yes, I know that Saint Nicholas Day isn’t until December 6th, but it’s always best to plan ahead… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1525278807270-TX0BJT04X3D0OJTBRE34/ADA-F-002905-0000.jpg What's New - Back to Villa Appia I tightened up a chapter from Ourania — set here on Villa Appia, where she decides to free all her slaves, whatever the consequences — and entered it in the Golden Quill Flash Fiction Contest last fall. It turned out to be a winner…or a Finalist, anyhow. Better even than winning was tasting what fine writing felt like to DO, and meeting a fellow writer at the awards ceremony to confabulate with, back here in the Bay Area. Read the entry for yourself in my Blog, elsewhere in this site, and let me know here how you liked it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1507062731709-8Z3IL0JBFUQD7S0YHIPD/dawn+autun.jpg What's New - Racing across Gaul... Forging ahead on "Race Across Gaul," the second part of the Ourania story, I will soon bring my family of characters (some of them, anyway) safely to Augustodunum, today Autun, then as now a center of learning perched on its ridge overlooking the mysterious "breasts of Epona" seen in the middle distance... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1447256795932-QPU24WWNUN9VMJLQ7STY/rome+route.jpg What's New - How Hasekura Tsunenaga got across Rome with his band of samurai, Father Luis Sotelo and friends, October 30, 1615 An image I made and just posted on my Daimyo&Saint Facebook Page, based on the Matthew Merian 1649 Map of Rome, from the powerpoint I put together with Seiko Sato in 2013 about the Keicho Mission from Sendai to Rome and back (1613-1620), the subject of my book (working title) Daimyo & Saint: Date Masamune's Keicho Mission (1613-1620). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1507061943739-VJLZ1BRWYB12VGZF1JUW/IMG_2056.jpg What's New - Unpacking Sendai Returning to my research on the Keicho Mission, I hope to present a paper on the subject at the national convention of the American Association of Geographers, next spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1447866397728-239GQ41QQQ9UHJJNGBTP/image-asset.jpeg What's New - The procession map as book illustration My book, currently seeking a publisher, will deal with the little-known Keicho Mission (1613-1620) sent by Sendai Daimyo Date Masamune to Rome for the purposes of establishing trade with New Spain (specifically Mexico) and inviting more priests to serve churches in the region of Japan known as Oshu, today called Tohoku. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1473791358011-7WK6DCURQO7UHJLRUUGT/IMG_1757.jpg What's New - Taking my show on the road! 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And why did Persie – Tanny and Jim’s youngest – vanish the moment she set foot on them? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1710009379205-W3NAT8ZJRVN1HCTIX7SA/image-asset.jpeg Finds & Keepers - A mysterious corner of Orkney Why are there white marble pebbles on every shale ledge in this geo on the Brough of Birsay, in Orkney? And why did Persie – Tanny and Jim’s youngest – vanish the moment she set foot on them? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1650647780005-ICI4GWN009MHNDD9F47Z/image-asset.jpeg Finds & Keepers - All five books in the Finds & Keepers Archaeological Adventure series! There are three full-length novels (1, 3, & 5) and two novellas (2 & 4) published by DLG Publishing Partners and available in print and Kindle from Amazon. All now in print. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1605639746724-3H631DGJGKP0HIEGLIM5/image-asset.jpeg Finds & Keepers - If there is a trowel, archaeology MUST be involved! Click on the newsletter link at the top of the page TODAY and get my monthly newsletter with updates on signing parties and inside stories on the writing of the series! AND win a cool lapel pin by joining the Finds & Keepers Fan Club at ripariapublications@mail.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1625976045580-1P9LUNWBW0DTCG9EMQZN/image-asset.jpeg Finds & Keepers - The Castellina Curse: Book One in the three-book Finds & Keepers series Published April 2021! Book 2 (Deep Scansion) will follow in June and Book 3 (Place of Sacrifice) early in 2022. The Castellina Curse is now available from Amazon in Kindle and paperback formats: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08WLD9PR3/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1579630097993-287XW9AKKI26GSNBAY3J/image-asset.jpeg Finds & Keepers - Return to La Castellina! Returning to this mysterious knoll at the northern end of ancient Tarquinia…in other words, updating these archaeological adventures, digging deeper into character and event, pruning and tightening. Fun stuff, good results! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/57d849c2b8a79bfd51d5628a/5ed5ddaf5619467b6d0943cf/1605640055734/la+castellina.jpg Finds & Keepers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1618978200640-DVBC4M0UQR6I71E11L92/image-asset.png Finds & Keepers - An Etruscan Pectoral This gold sheet ornament, meant magically to protect the chest of the wearer, came from the Regiolini-Galassi Tomb in Cerveteri and is now in the Vatican Museums. The pectoral found at La Castellina was edged with tiny golden jingle-bells or crotales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1618978913473-VMUOVJPZR9TRFC703W7S/07mammi.jpeg Finds & Keepers - The view from Mammi In Book 2, Deep Scansion, Tanny is in hiding in the hamlet of Mammi, high above the hill town of Castiglion Fiorentino, trying to finish her dissertation and hide a key piece of evidence… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1625773579935-KZHCVYDN9JM6PUKM0JZ5/image-asset.jpeg Finds & Keepers - La Castellina, ancient Tarquinia Tarquinia is real. The place is real. Even its name is real, as are the lines of elevation and excavation areas, both derived from Padovan, Gianluca, Civita di Tarquinia: Indagini Speleologiche, Catalogazione e studio Delle cavita artificiali rinvenute presso il Pian di Civita a il Pian della Regina, BAR International Series 1039 (2002). Notebooks on Medieval Topography (Documentary and Field Research) edited by Stefano del Lungo, No. 3. But all the rest, including the farmhouse, the camper, all the features and all the excavation details of La Castellina are the products of my imagination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1473792495665-W0UXLG41926VA2XUOSCU/vanth%26kairun2.jpeg Finds & Keepers - Tuchulcha and the Vanth These two death spirits, facing each other across the doorway to an Etruscan tomb in Tarquinia, north of Rome, may also be found in the stories of "Digging Up Danger." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1625774409371-ALW2AQB62DS6ORAJP6ZN/image-asset.jpeg Finds & Keepers - Excavation Map of Tarquinia Derived from the same source as my La Castellina map, this shows all the true excavation areas of ancient Tarquinia, but labelled with fictitious names of characters from my book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1625975201891-QGYNGHT7Y8DARC5FH894/image-asset.jpeg Finds & Keepers - Coming soon! Deep Scansion, Book 2 in the Finds & Keepers Series Jim’s heirloom pocket watch, known to his younger daughter as “Tick-Tick,” plays a pivotal role in the thrilling conclusion to this dark tale of misunderstanding, deception, and redemption. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1625774578956-D185IDSV9XXWMAUDMBSC/image-asset.jpeg Finds & Keepers - Map of Italy showing all places important to Finds & Keepers Key locations in boldface. All these locations are real and may be found on any map of Italy. Map nerds, in particular students of my Fall 2005 TAMU Overseas Studies Geography of Europe class, will recognize the base map as one I used for their quiz on Italy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1507058812546-CM70ZK46VME1D6Z5NS98/1+vanth.jpg Finds & Keepers - Banishing the Vanth, a novel, Part One of Keepers & Finds The first part of the Keepers & Finds series introduces us to Princeton archaeology graduate student Tanaquil Greenough, digging at the site of ancient Tarquinia alongside her advisor James Pericles Lewis. Sparks fly as they discover both a mysterious underground chamber and an intense affection for one another, releasing into the world an Etruscan death-spirit that only a priest-warlock can recapture... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1625774735899-0VNP4GNE7SK4SGUYGOB3/image-asset.jpeg Finds & Keepers - Map of Central Rome showing key Deep Scansion locations …with a detail of the area of the Villa Parrhasia. All locations are real EXCEPT for the Villa Parrhasia. Although the Bosco Parrasio is real, visitors to the Fontana Paola or the American Academy (both real places, if magical-seeming) will look for the RCAS in vain. Its inspiration, however, The Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, is nearby on Via A. Algardi, 19. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1625775075512-5FOEJATI0ESZJ04VYWJC/image-asset.jpeg Finds & Keepers - Course of the Cloaca Maxima and Talpa Locations This map is derived from several guide-book maps as well as articles about the Cloaca Maxima, with a imaginary grid of drains added by me under the Temple of Peace. Features in dark lines are beneath the surface of the streets, light blocks and lines are on the modern surface of the city. Ristorante Angelino ai Fori dal 1947 is absolutely real, as is the waiter known as Walter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1625975467819-SB0134AP9ZDKXQCEY1JT/BK+3+2820.jpg Finds & Keepers - Coming by year's end: Place of Sacrifice, Book 3 in the Finds & Keepers Series What will Tanny and Jim sacrifice to learn all of La Castellina’s secrets before the site is closed forever? 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This is the wealthy and powerful daimyo of Oshu (the modern day Tohoku region of Japan) who sent a cultural and trade expansion mission to Europe in 1613, featured in my upcoming non-fiction book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56435a89e4b07810c0ae5568/1722895592588-X8FN7HUF5C7648CGEVDF/image-asset.jpg A Japanese Mission to 17th Century Rome - COMING SEPTEMBER 15, 2024 AT LONG LAST, the English-language version of my book on the Keicho Mission and the extraordinary men who conceived of, led, and chronicled it will be on bookshelves this September, available as a (cheaper) e-book or (costly but more durable) hardback from Rowman & Littlefield or Amazon. 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