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Rome: The Biography of a City by: Christopher Hibbert List Price: £18.99 City Travel Guides Price: £13.29 You Save: £5.70 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 945.632 EAN: 9780140070781 ISBN: 0140070788 Label: Penguin Books Ltd Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: October 15, 1987 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Studio: Penguin Books Ltd Sales Rank: 89418 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Synopsis: This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City. It covers 3,000 years of history from the city's quasi-mythical origins, through the Etruscan kings, the opulent glory of classical Rome, the decadence and decay of the Middle Ages and the beauty and corruption of the Renaissance, to its time at the heart of Mussolini's fascist Italy. Exploring the city's streets and buildings, peopled with popes, gladiators, emperors, noblemen and peasants, this volume details the turbulent and dramatic history of Rome in all its depravity and grandeur. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - A must for anyone travelling to the Eternal CityHibbert's history of Rome, from Romulus to Mussolini, is an excellent introduction to the events that have shaped this incredible city. This is not a history of the Roman Republic, Empire, Papacy, Renaissance or Risorgimento. Instead the focus remains fixed on the city of Rome itself: its buildings, reputation and inhabitants. Its streets and piazzas have witnessed so many of the crucial moments in these states and movements but Hibbert's work ventures away from the city walls only for a full introduction to events within. The history adds an additional element to any visit to Rome, not only providing a history of the major landmarks but also helping the visitor imagine the city in lost eras. The only major improvement ... Read More: Rating:  - Very RevealingHibbert's book is an essential companion for anyone interested in the 'Caput Mundi': it's very well laid out; to the point; honest and extremely interesting, as any book should be when its intention is to describe the evolution of one of the world's oldest and most historically relevant cities. Put down your wishy-washy tourist book and pick up this. The one pity is that it's a bit big and not very portable if one wants to pass through Rome as a back packer which is the situation I found myself in reading it. Anyway, get it for before or after. |
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