Rome, the biography of a city — 3,000 years of her history from the Etruscan Kings to Mussolini

📖 Auteur(s): Christopher Hibbert
🏢 Uitgever: Penguin, New York, 1987, ©1985
📄 Aantal pagina’s: 387
📝 Samenvatting: "A portrait. A history and a superb guide book - this beautifully written. Informative study captures the seductive beauty and the many-layered past of the Eternal City. From its quasi-mythical origins. Through 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. Christopher Hibbert details the turbulent and dramatic history of this extraordinary place."--BOOK JACKET. ©1985.
📌 Conditie: Hele mooie staat
🗂️ Inhoud: Pt. I. : 1. Myths. Monarchs and republicans. 2. Imperial Rome. 3. Bread and circuses. 4. Catacombs and Christians. 5. Infamy and anarchy. 6. Saints. Tyrants and anti-popes. 7. The refuge of all the nations. 8. Renaissance and decadence. 9. Patrons and parasites. 10. The sack of Rome. Pt. II. : 11. Recovery and reform. 12. Bernini and the Baroque. 13. IL Settecento. 14. Napoleonic interlude. 15. The Risorgimento and the Roman question. 16. Royal Rome. 17. Roma fascista. Epilogue : The eternal city. Pt. III. : Notes on topography. Buildings and works of art. Index.
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