Intellectual Rome has just celebrated two hundred and fifty years of life here, in the renowned ‘omnibus’ room loved by Liszt, Bizet, Wagner, Goethe, Casanova, Stendhal and even Buffalo Bill. Gogol wrote a novel here, and it inspired paintings by Passini and Guttuso. One of the monuments of Rome and a place where great thinkers, artists, writers and patriots come to exchange ideas and enjoy the eastern beverage. Also a pulsating heart of the Risorgimento. And if a cardinal takes a seat at the Greco? Legend has it that he will become pope. For Gioacchino Pecci, later Leo XIII, it certainly did.