The Golden Thread
Melania the Younger: The River She Couldn't Give Away
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Granddaughter of Melania the Elder, Melania the Younger inherited one of the greatest fortunes in the Roman world and spent her life trying to give it away, only to discover that wealth at true scale behaves less like a possession and more like a river that never stops flowing. From her unsellable palace on the Caelian Hill to estates scattered across three continents, her renunciation was never…