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xx, 315 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-308). |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Overtures. Byron ; Mary Shelley ; George Eliot ; George Santayana ; Ranier Maria Rilke ; James Joyce ; Auguste Rodin ; Federico Fellini ; Pier Paolo Pasolini ; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -- Ancient Rome -- from A time in Rome. The Palatine Hill / Elizabeth Bowen -- from The companion guide to rome. The Roman Forum / Georgina Masson -- from The art of love / Ovid ; Circus Maximus -- from The love-artist / Jane Alison ; Theater of Marcellus ; Ostia Antica -- from Memoirs of Hadrian / Marguerite Yourcenar ; The Pantheon ; Hadrian's tomb ; Hadrian's villa -- from In ruins. Who killed Daisy Miller? / Christopher Woodward ; The Colosseum -- Early Christian Rome -- from The first letter of Peter / St. Peter ; Trastevere ; Santa Pudenziana ; St. Peter's the Scavi ; The Janiculum Hill -- from The letter of Paul to the Church in Rome / St. Paul ; St. Prisca ; St. Paul ; Outside the walls ; Tre Fontane -- from The geometry of love / Margaret Visser ; St. Agnes outside the walls ; Constantia's Mausoleum ; Early Christian churches -- Renaissance and baroque Rome -- Poems / Michelangelo Buonarroti ; The Sistine Chapel ; St. Peter's the Pieta ; The dome ; Palazzo Farnese -- Poems / Vittoria Colonna ; Palazzo Colonna galleria ; San Silvestro on the Quirinal Hill -- from The Moses of Michelangelo / Sigmund Freud ; St. Peter in chains -- from The passion of Artemisia / Susan Vreeland ; St. Maria del Popolo ; Palazzo Spada ; Campo de' Fiori ; Trinità dei Monti -- [from] Bernini and the four rivers / Simon Schama ; Piazza Navona -- Rome of the grand tour(ists) : eighteenth century to the present -- from Italian journey / Johann Wolfgang Goethe ; St. Peter's the Lantern ; The Farnesina ; The Botanical Gardens -- The Bishop orders his tomb at St. Praxed's Church / Robert Browning ; St. Prassede -- from The marble faun / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; The Capitoline Hill ; The Monkey Tower ; Church of the Capuchins ; The Catacombs |
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from Italian hours / Henry James ; The Pincian Hill ; The Esquiline Hill ; The Campagna ; The Corso -- from Italian villas and their gardens. Villa d'Este / Edith Wharton ; Villa d'Este, Tivoli ; The Borghese Gardens ; The Villa Borghese -- from A voyage to Pagany / William Carlos Williams ; Piazza dell'Esedra ; The Baths fo Diocletian ; Palazzo Altemps ; Octagonal Hall -- Twin beds in Rome / John Updike ; Piazza Venezia ; The Capitoline Hill ; St. Maria in Aracoeli ; Via Nazionale -- from Rome and a villa. Beside the pyramid / Eleanor Clark ; The Protestant Cemetery ; Keat's House -- My Rome / Muriel Speak ; Via dei Coronari ; Palazzo Taverna ; Lake Nemi -- from Without reservations. Spanish Steps / Alice Steinbach ; Piazza di Spagna ; Via del Babuino ; Caffè Greco -- from City of the soul / William Murray ; St. Maria Sopra Minerva -- Roman hours / André Aciman ; Piazza Campitelli -- Romans on Rome : since World War II -- Such is Rome / Natalia Ginzburg ; Via Nomentana ; Piazza in Piscinula, Trastevere -- from History: a novel / Elsa Morante ; The Jewish Ghetto ; San Lorenzo ; Tiburtino ; Testaccio ; Fosse Ardeatina -- from Conversations / Federico Fellini ; Piazza del popolo ; Trevi Fountain ; The Veneto -- For further reading -- Some places to eat and drink. |
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Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel.
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Rome (Italy) -- Literary collections.
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Rome (Italy) -- In literature.
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Rome (Italy) -- History -- Miscellanea.
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| Added Author |
Cahill, Susan, 1940-
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| ISBN |
034543420X paperback |
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9780345434203 paperback |
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