➡️SWIPE➡️ – Got some quarantined extra-time to work on a personal project after a while, getting back to my roman #ghosts after years. – The new character of my #ghostsofrome project is Valeria #Messalina . Third wife of Emperor Claudius, sentenced to death by him because of cheating on him and after an increasing spiral of political hatred due to her plots and commissioned killings. The hatred on her was so big that the rumors and gossips they originated about her conduct made her name synonymous of depravation and amorality, still to this day. Stabbed at the throat by an Emperor’s emissary while she was hiding in the Lucullo’s gardens, her desperate ghost still wanders in those places, today part of Villa Medici’s gardens. – Background of this is inspired by one of the villa’s views painted during the 17th century by the great #Velazquez 🏛👻