"Capi has always existed as un mondo a parte, a world apart," says one resident. That sentiment is demonstrated in the Faraglioni pinnacles off southeastern Capri. Francesco Lastrucci In most of the ...

This was the original pleasure palace. In the sumptuous gardens, young men and women dressed as nubile nymphs and coquettish Pans openly prostituted themselves to guests in woodland 'lechery nooks' ...

Capri, like many islands, has always colluded in its own secretiveness. The Villa Jovis of Tiberius, the most notorious pleasure palace of the Roman Empire, still stands at its eastern tip, and all ...

Roman emperor Tiberius was one of the world's greatest generals, having conquered Pannonia, Dalmatia, Raetia, and temporarily Germania under his 23-year reign. But when he wasn't busy building his ...

Never the preferred heir, Tiberius (42 BC – 37 AD / reigned 14 – 37 AD) soon showed why Augustus had wanted someone else. His political inability, poor judgment ...

A tiny, precipitous island adrift off the Sorrentine peninsula, sun-baked Capri has been a 'must do' Italian holiday destination for centuries. The Roman Emperor Tiberius had his retirement home here, ...

CAPRI, Italy—When Emperor Tiberius Caesar wanted to escape from the doldrums of ancient Roman life, he came here to Capri, even self-exiling for a time in his pornographically decorated palaces where ...