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Cargando... The Rome We Have Lost (2017)por John Pemble
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A wide-ranging book that uses Rome as an anchor for a meditation on western intellectual and aesthetic history. Premble argues that the usurpation of Rome by the Italian Republic has marginalized the city's previous status as the center of European culture. The main thesis is, for me, less important than the digressions and observations that support it. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
For a thousand years, Rome was enshrined in myth and legend as the Eternal City. No Grand Tour would be complete without a visit to its ruins. But from 1870 all that changed. A millennium ended as its solitary moonlit ruins became floodlit monuments on traffic islands, and its perimetershifted 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. John Pemble musters popes, emperors, writers, exiles, and tourists, to weave a rich fabric of Roman experience. He tells the story of how, why, and with what consequences that Rome, centre of Europe and the world, became anational capital: no longer central and unique, but marginal and very similar in its problems and its solutions to other modern cities with a heavy burden of "heritage".This far-reaching book illuminates the historical significance of Rome's transformation and the crisis that Europe is now confronting as it struggles to re-invent without its ancestral centre - the city that had made Europe what it was, and defined what it meant to be European. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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