At the time of his death in 2018, Milton Gendel had spent seven decades in Rome, remaining an unpretentious American even as he became more and more a part of the Eternal City. His home on the Isola Tiberina was the nerve center of the dolce vita generation, whose comings and goings and doings he immortalized in both words and images. Collected here are Gendel's diaries and photographs, documenting friendships with Mark Rothko, Princess Margaret, Alexander Calder, Anaïs Nin, Gore Vidal, Martha Gellhorn, and Muriel Spark.