Description
Book SynopsisAndrew Leach s Rome is the first book in Polity s exciting new Cities in World History series, which aims to provide the general reader and traveller with historically informed companions to the world s greatest cities.
Trade Review"In this unconventional and sagely written guide to Rome, Andrew Leach captures the pulsating memory that is embodied in the history of Rome and its urban scene, and the mixture of the sublime and the trivial that are somehow inextricably united in this great theatre of the world."
Maristella Casciato, Getty Research Institute "This is an ambitious and exhilarating introduction to three millennia of the city's history. The reader is taken on a non-stop journey from the boundary drawn by Romulus to the curves of Zaha Hadid's MAXXI, encountering Rome's main characters and its most famous buildings along the way."
Pippo Ciorra, University of Camerino �Is there any more to be written about Rome? Andrew Leach in Rome (�) seems to have managed it.�
The TabletTable of ContentsMap of Rome Preface Introduction: Thinking about Seeing
1 A Matter of Foundations
2 The Roman Empire
3 A Middle Age
4 Return to Rome
5 The Capital of Italy
Selected Sources Chronology Notes Credits Index of Works Index of Places Index of Names
