![]() ![]() Fulling was a messy business, its main ingredient being human urine. was a cloth-processing workshop, or fullery. And worse: “Just over the back wall of the garden. But among some unsavory facts that Bulwer-Lytton “fails to point out to his readers,” Beard writes, is that the kitchen, too tiny to have produced much of a banquet anyway, was the site of the house’s ![]() ![]() In her engrossingly mischievous “Fires of Vesuvius,” Mary Beard recreates the scene with gusto, pointing out that this Pompeiian mansion is in fact based closely on a real one, the so-called House of the Tragic ![]()
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