Rome: Ten Literary Walking Tours
- ISBN-10
- 0915829762
- ISBN-13
- 9780915829767
- Series
- Rome
- Pages
- 299
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-01-22
- Publisher
- Chameleon Books
- Author
- John Varriano
Description
Rome, the Eternal City: it is here, perhaps more than anywhere, that the visitor is conscious of time and timelessness. Echoes of antiquity haunt the busy streets, and the interweaving of past and present has, sirn-like, drawn artists, writers, historians and poets since time immemorial. Arranged in a series of ten walks, the book focuses on the varying responses authors of eleven different nationalities have had to Rome over the course of the past 2000 years. Their words- whether panegyrics of praise or exclamations of indignant outrage, whether amazement, adulation or awe- complement those of Rome's own citizens to portray a city that remains as vibrant and sensual as ever. Henry James and Henrik Ibsen, Stendhal and Goethe, Virginia Woolf and Oscar Wilde are only a few of those who have written with passion about Rome, and through their words we rediscover the grandeur of the vistas, the intimacy of its streets and markets, and the fascination of its monuments
