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The Rome We Have Lost
John Pemble
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Description for The Rome We Have Lost
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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-kilometre wall with twelve gates to a fifty-kilometre ring road with thirty-three roundabouts and spaghetti junctions. The Rome We Have Lost is the first full investigation of this change. John Pemble musters popes, emperors, writers, exiles, and tourists, to weave a rich fabric of Roman ... Read more
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-kilometre wall with twelve gates to a fifty-kilometre ring road with thirty-three roundabouts and spaghetti junctions. The Rome We Have Lost is the first full investigation of this change. John Pemble musters popes, emperors, writers, exiles, and tourists, to weave a rich fabric of Roman ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198803966
SKU
V9780198803966
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About John Pemble
Since 1977, John Pemble has been attached to the University of Bristol, where he is currently Senior Research Fellow. He has published a wide range of books and articles, including Shakespeare Goes to Paris (Continnuum, 2005), Britain's Gurkha War (Frontline Books, 2008), and The Mediterranean Passion (Faber and Faber, 2009). He has written for The Listener, the Times Literary Supplement, ... Read more
Reviews for The Rome We Have Lost
The Rome We Have Lost is a magnificent companion ... Lucid and authoritative, Pemble shows how Rome, even when absented from history as a 'heritage site', remains a shaping presence.
Dominic Green, Minerva
Among the merits of this beautifully written book is its understated erudition and pithy yet wide-ranging narrative, itself a product of the European cultural tradition ... Read more
Dominic Green, Minerva
Among the merits of this beautifully written book is its understated erudition and pithy yet wide-ranging narrative, itself a product of the European cultural tradition ... Read more