This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City. It covers 3,000 years of history from the city's quasi-mythical origins, through the Etruscan kings, the opulent glory of classical Rome, the decadence and decay of the Middle Ages and the beauty and co...
This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City. It covers 3,000 years of history from the city's quasi-mythical origins, through the Etruscan kings, the opulent glory of classical Rome, the decadence and decay of the Middle Ages and the beauty and corruption of the Renaissance, to its time at the heart of Mussolini's fascist Italy. Exploring the city's streets and buildings, peopled with popes, gladiators, emperors, noblemen and peasants, this volume details the turbulent and dramatic history of Rome in all its depravity and grandeur.
Rome was once again, in Belloc's phrase, ‘astonishingly the same’; and the city was seen to retain the lustre and the fascination which had held men and women in thrall for so many centuries. Throughout those ages poets and patriots, artists and historians, philosophers and statesmen have fallen under the spell of Rome, ‘mother of kingdoms, the world’s capital, the mirror of cities’. To Virgil she seemed the beauty of the world, the natural ruler of the nations. To the twelfth century Englishman, Master Gregory, the first visitor from his country to provide a detailed account of the city, she appeared ‘most wonderful’. Nothing could equal the beauty of Rome, ‘Rome even in ruins’. For Hildebert of Blois also, Rome was incomparable: ‘No other city can be compared to you, O Rome, even though ... (查看原文)
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