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Salvatore Meo (1914-2004) was a native of Philadelphia but made Rome his home since the 1950s. He saw this iconic city in its poverty stricken post-war years and witnessed the 1960s world of the glitterati portrayed in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita. Meo might even have watched the weeklong filming of Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg frolicking in the Trevi Fountain on the street just in front of his studio. That studio is now home to the Fondazione Salvatore Meo, devoted to the preservation and study of his work and directed by Mary Angela Schroth, who also founded Sala Uno, a space dedicated …