Rome We Have Lost Pemble John Senior Research Fellow University of Bristol Pevná vazba
Rome We Have Lost Pemble John Senior Research Fellow University of Bristol Pevná vazba For a thousand years, Rome was enshrined in myth and legend as the Eternal City. But from 1870 all that changed.…
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Rome We Have Lost Pemble John Senior Research Fellow University of Bristol Pevná vazba
For a thousand years, Rome was enshrined in myth and legend as the Eternal City. But from 1870 all that changed. No Grand Tour would be complete without a visit to its ruins.
John Pemble musters popes, emperors, writers, exiles, and tourists, to weave a rich fabric of Roman experience. 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. 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