Secrets of Rome

Stories, Places and Characters of the Eternal City

Corrado Augias (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

472 Seiten

2007
Rizzoli International Publications (Verlag)
978-0-8478-2933-0 (ISBN)

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From Italy's popular author Corrado Augias comes the most intriguing exploration of Rome ever to be published. In the mold of his earlier histories of Paris, New York, and London, Augias moves perceptively through twenty-seven centuries of Roman life, shedding new light on a cast of famous, and infamous, historical figures and uncovering secrets and conspiracies that have shaped the city without our ever knowing it. From Rome's origins as Romulus's stomping ground to the dark atmosphere of the Middle Ages; from Caesar's unscrupulousness to Caravaggio's lurid genius; from the notorious Lucrezia Borgia to the seductive Anna Fallarino, the marchioness at the center of one of Rome's most heinous crimes of the post-war period, Augias creates a sweeping account of the passions that have shaped this complex city: at once both a metropolis and a village, where all human sentiment-bravery and cowardice, industriousness and sloth, enterprise and laxity-find their interpreters and stage. If the history of humankind is all passion and uproar, then, as the author notes, "for centuries Rome has been the mirror of this history, reflecting with excruciating accuracy every detail, even those that might cause you to avert your gaze."

Corrado Augias is a celebrated author and journalist who has worked as a correspondent for "L'Espresso" and "La Republica."

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.7.2007
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations (some col.)
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 223 mm
Gewicht	726 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
ISBN-10	0-8478-2933-2 / 0847829332
ISBN-13	978-0-8478-2933-0 / 9780847829330
Zustand	Neuware