I stayed at Luca's apartment for a month and I choose the location mainly because of its proximity to Sapienza University where I have arranged a collaboration visit. But I was pleasantly surprised to see that this location is possibly one of the best one can have at Rome. Near a very vivid Monti area with small shops, restaurants and cafe- bars (5 minutes walking), near Metro Cavour (7 minutes walking), near a very good quality super market, near one of the most interesting churches at Rome (3 minutes walking), and yet a very quiet and safe area (a lot of army offices in the neighbourhood). My wife (mainly) and I walked all over the places including Vatican, since beautiful Rome is a city to walk. It may have taken sometime 30 to 40 minutes walking but it was very pleasant given the very nice weather.
In regards to the apartment I have the best memories. First of all it is an apartment with personality because Luca lives in it. Full of beautiful books, nicely decorated with very interesting gravures, and while no TV was available the collection of nice movies and CD's playable in corresponding screen and player, made up for this. The WiFi connection was stable and fast, a VERY important item because of my job, but this allowed also to see news etc via Internet. The living room provides for a very nice desk lap-top friendly for those hours of work. The kitchen is complete with provision of coffee + espresso machine, sugar and salt. The bathroom large, with light, good water pressure for the shower, only the toilette is a bit squeezed being very close to the shower/jacuzzi. The bedroom has a very nice view with open sky, firm but comfortable mattresses and space for clothing. The apartment has a washing machine and equipment for ironing and drying clothes. It is very quiet in general from non existing street noise (it is in the 3rd floor facing an inner courtyard and a back open space)) and only has the unavoidable noises from neighbouring apartments in a large apartment building.
Finally about the host I have the best impression because of his very prompt response on all my questions about details of importance to me before and after I reserved the place, his helpful advise to fix some small glitches during the month long stay and I should also add that the young cleaning lady Sofia was a charming person that despite her poor english she was very efficient and she even tried to teach me how to use whatsup on my i-phone.
I recommend this apartment to anyone, and for sure I will try to stay there if I visit Rome again.