The Rome we have lost /
For a thousand years, Rome was enshrined in myth and legend as the Eternal City. No Grand Tour would be complete without a visit to its ruins. But from 1870, all that changed. A millennium ended as its solitary moonlit ruins became floodlit monuments on traffic islands, and its perimeter shifted fro...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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| Summary: | For a thousand years, Rome was enshrined in myth and legend as the Eternal City. No Grand Tour would be complete without a visit to its ruins. But from 1870, all that changed. A millennium ended as its solitary moonlit ruins became floodlit monuments on traffic islands, and its perimeter shifted from the ancient nineteen-kilometer wall with twelve gates to a fifty-kilometer ring road with thirty-three roundabouts and spaghetti junctions. This title is the first full investigation of this change. John Pemble musters popes, emperors, writers, exiles and tourists, to weave a rich fabric of Roman experience. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 171 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-151) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198803966 0198803966 |