If you ever wondered whether Paolo Sorrentino’s Oscar-winning movie, The Great Beauty, was based on a certain Roman lifestyle, look no further. I write this at Villa Furibonda (Villa Furious), on the exclusive Appia Antica, Rome’s oldest cobbled road, where ancient catacombs are found beneath splendid villas flanked by towering pine trees and cypresses. It is here, at Villa Furibonda, that Countess Marisela Federici has been holding court with the international jet set for decades.
Dressed elegantly in all black (her silk robes are strictly handmade) — including a black pillbox with a veil (she follows diligently Queen Victoria’s example by
