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Index
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Overtures
Ancient Rome
Elizabeth Bowen
From A Time in Rome - The Palatine Hill
Georgina Masson
From The Companion Guide to Rome - The Roman Forum
Ovid
From The Art of Love - Circus Maximus
Jane Alison
From The Love-Artist - Theater of Marcellus - Ostia Antica
Marguerite Yourcenar
From Memoirs of Hadrian - The Pantheon - Hadrian’s Tomb - Hadrian’s Villa
Christopher Woodward
From In Ruins - Who Killed Daisy Miller? - The Colosseum
Early Christian Rome
St. Peter
From The First Letter of Peter - Trastevere Santa Pudenziana - St. Peter’s: The Scavi - The Janiculum Hill
St. Paul
From The Letter of Paul to the Church in Rome - St. Prisca - St. Paul - Outside the Walls - Tre Fontane
Margaret Visser
From The Geometry of Love - St. Agnes Outside the Walls - Constantia’s Mausoleum - Early Christian Churches
Renaissance and Baroque Rome
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Poems - The Sistine Chapel - St. Peter’s: The Pietà - The Dome - Palazzo Farnese
Vittoria Colonna
Poems - Palazzo Colonna: Galleria - San Silvestro on The Quirinal Hill
Sigmund Freud
From The Moses of Michelangelo - St. Peter in Chains
Susan Vreeland
From The Passion of Artemisia - St. Maria del Popolo - Palazzo Spada - Campo de’ Fiori - Trinità dei Monti
Simon Schama
Bernini and the Four Rivers - Piazza Navona
Rome of the Grand Tour (ISTS): Eighteenth Century to the Present
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
From Italian Journey - St. Peter’s: The Lantern - The Farnesina - The Botanical Gardens
Robert Browning
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s Church - St. Prassede
Nathaniel Hawthorne
From The Marble Faun - The Capitoline Hill - The Monkey Tower - Church of the Capuchins - The Catacombs
Henry James
From Italian Hours - The Pincian Hill - The Esquiline Hill - The Campagna - The Corso
Edith Wharton
From Italian Villas and Their Gardens - Villa d’Este, Tivoli - The Borghese Gardens - The Villa Borghese
William Carlos Williams
From A Voyage to Pagany - Piazza dell’Esedra - The Baths of Diocletian - Palazzo Altemps Octagonal Hall
John Updike
Twin Beds in Rome - Piazza Venezia - The Capitoline Hill - St. Maria in Aracoeli - Via Nazionale
Eleanor Clark
From Rome and a Villa - Beside the Pyramid - The Protestant Cemetery - Keats’s House
Muriel Spark
My Rome - Via dei Coronari - Palazzo Taverna - Lake Nemi
Alice Steinbach
From Without Reservations - Spanish Steps - Piazza di Spagna - Via del Babuino - Caffè Greco
William Murray
From City of the Soul - St. Maria Sopra Minerva
André Aciman
Roman Hours - Piazza Campitelli
Romans on Rome: Since World War II
Natalia Ginzburg
Such Is Rome - Via Nomentana - Piazza in Piscinula, Trastevere
Elsa Morante
From History: A Novel - The Jewish Ghetto - San Lorenzo - Tiburtino - Testaccio - Fosse Ardeatina
Federico Fellini
From Conversations - Piazza del Popolo - Trevi Fountain - The Veneto
For Further Reading
Some Places to Eat and Drink
Credits
About the Author
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