On 31 July 1906 Joyce and his family arrived in Rome. Joyce had left Trieste and his work at the Berlitz School to take up a job in the correspondence department of the Nast-Kolb Schumacher Bank in Rome. Joyce’s early favourable impressions of Rome soon changed, but his seven-month stay in Rome marked an important […]
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On this day…11 May
On 11 May 1906 Joyce answered an advertisement for a job in a bank in Rome. The advertisement appeared in the Rome newspaper La Tribuna seeking young men fluent in English and Italian to work in a bank in Rome. Joyce responded immediately, and started work at the Nast-Kolb Schumacher bank in August 1906. At […]