The Rome We Have Lost

The Rome We Have Lost – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198803966,0198803966,9780192526014, 0192526014

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 0192526014
• ISBN 13:9780192526014
• Author: John Pemble

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 experience. He tells the story of how, why, and with what consequences that Rome, centre of Europe and the world, became a national capital: no longer central and unique, but marginal and very similar in its problems and its solutions to other modern cities with a heavy burden of ‘heritage’. This far-reaching book illuminates the historical significance of Rome’s transformation and the crisis that Europe is now confronting as it struggles to re-invent without its ancestral centre — the city that had made Europe what it was, and defined what it meant to be European.

Table contents:

1. Paradise, Grave, City, Wilderness
2. Old Rome and the Modern Mind
3. The Dying of the Light
4. Apollo Deposed
5. Far-off Fields of Memory
6. The Prisoner in the Vatican
7. The Second Coming

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