Archaeology, ideology, and urbanism in Rome from the grand tour to Berlusconi /
This study has grown out of several long standing scholarly interests and personal enthusiasms. First and foremost is my devotion to Rome, not just the ancient city of the classicists and archaeologists, but medieval, early modern and modern Rome. Much of that fascination comes from the fact that Ro...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | This study has grown out of several long standing scholarly interests and personal enthusiasms. First and foremost is my devotion to Rome, not just the ancient city of the classicists and archaeologists, but medieval, early modern and modern Rome. Much of that fascination comes from the fact that Rome is not a museum, but a living, dynamic city, shaped, informed, and constrained by its past, but never subservient to it. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 327 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-317) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780521874595 0521874599 |