Scenes from a Roman century : 1914-2024 /
"Hollywood film stars, fascist assassins. Bombs on San Lorenzo, la dolce vita on Via Veneto. Baroque fountains, umbrella pines. Urban planning, unregulated house-building. After half a century living in Rome, David Lane turns his eye on events and streetscapes in the Eternal City over the past...
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London :
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd.,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: words about Rome
- Part one. The fascist Ventennio 1924-1944
- The killing of Giacomo Matteotti
- Capital city for a modern empire
- War in Rome
- Part two. Post-fascism's Chiaroscuro decades 1945-2024
- Hollywood on the Tiber
- Into a new millennium
- Visitors
- Political terrorism from Left and Right
- Afterword: steps across the past.