Chronicles of Old Rome
Exploring Italy''s Eternal City
Published on 1. August 2012
273 pages
978-1-938450-11-2 (ISBN)
Description
Discover la dolce vita on this grand tour of Italy''s historic capital told through 30 dramatic true stories spanning nearly 3,000 years, plus detailed walking tours complete with easy-to-read maps. From the Curia Pompei, site of Julius Caesar''s assassination in 44 BC, to the Borgia Apartments in the Vatican, see the real-life places where history happened in this richly illustrated guide. Along with infamous power games between heroes and villains, you will find Rome''s smart and powerful women, such as Agrippina, St. Agnes, Margherita, Artemisia, and more. Then relax like Goethe and Keats at the Café Greco, Rome''s chicest coffee bar since 1760, or visit the Palazzo Colonna, the site of Audrey Hepburn''s Roman Holiday.
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- From the Author
- Contents
- CHAPTER 1. Tales of Rome's Beginning: Aeneas, Romulus, the She Wolf and Seven Hills
- CHAPTER 2. The Rape of Lucretia: Dawn of the Roman Republic
- CHAPTER 3. The Ides of March: Caesar's Demise at the Curia Pompey
- CHAPTER 4. Free and Not So Free Speech: Cicero at the Forum
- CHAPTER 5. The Latin Lover: Ovid's Manual of Seduction
- CHAPTER 6. Caligula's Needle: The Vatican Obelisk
- CHAPTER 7. Empress with an Iron Grip: Agrippina the Younger
- CHAPTER 8. Domestic Bliss: Nero's Golden House
- CHAPTER 9. Hadrian & Antinous: an Emperor's Lover
- CHAPTER 10. Fun and Games at the Thermae: Caracalla's Roman Baths
- CHAPTER 11. Machos & Virgin Martyrs: Agnes of Rome in Piazza Navona
- CHAPTER 12. Arenas of Death: A Martyr Monk at the Colosseum
- CHAPTER 13. Marozia and Theodora: Harlot Rule at the Lateran Palace
- CHAPTER 14. Murder on Capitoline Hill: Cola Di Rienzo
- CHAPTER 15. Rebuilding Rome: From Urban Disasters to Miracles
- CHAPTER 16. Lucrezia Borgia: Villainess or Victim at the Vatican Palace
- CHAPTER 17. Michelangelo: Torment of the Sistine Chapel
- CHAPTER 18. Treasures in the Tiber: The Lavish World of Villa Farnesina
- CHAPTER 19. Raffaello & the Baker's Daughter: The Painter, the Mistress, the Secret Marriage
- CHAPTER 20. Brutal Reality: Caravaggio in the Campo Marzio
- CHAPTER 21. Artemisia Gentileschi: Creative Desires on the Via della Croce
- CHAPTER 22. Cardinal Art: Scipione Borghese at the Villa Borghese
- CHAPTER 23. Sculpting Rome: Bernini, Borromini & the Baroque Epoch
- CHAPTER 24. Queen Christina: A Runaway Royal at the Palazzo Corsini
- CHAPTER 25. The Grand Tour and Caffè Greco: Goethe
- CHAPTER 26. Romancing Rome: Keats and the Ghetto Ingelsi
- CHAPTER 27. Tosca: Rome in Three Acts
- CHAPTER 28. Ruining Rome: Mussolini's Road through Imperial History
- CHAPTER 29. Roman Holiday: Audrey Hepburn in Rome
- CHAPTER 30. The Trevi Fountain: Anita Ekberg, Fellini & La Dolce Vita
- WALKING TOURS
- TOUR ONE Colosseum, Palatine Hill, Roman Forum and Capitoline Hill
- TOUR TWO Pantheon, Campo de' Fiori and Piazza Navona
- TOUR THREE Sant'Angelo, San Pietro/St. Peter's and Vatican Museums
- TOUR FOUR Trastevere
- TOUR FIVE Piazza Barberini, Quirinale Hill and Trevi Fountain
- TOUR SIX Piazza di Spagna, Pincio Hill and Piazza del Popolo
- INDEX
- Bibliography
- Image Credits
- About Museyon
- About the Author
