The Smiles Of Rome

Author : Susan Cahill
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307778369

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Take a Roman holiday with some of the world’s greatest writers Explore the Palatine with Elizabeth Bowen. Visit the temple of the Vestal Virgins with Georgina Masson. Analyze Michelangelo’s Moses with Sigmund Freud. Stroll through ancient streets with Goethe and with Henry James. Share Alice Steinbach’s midnight epiphany on a shabby hotel balcony. Learn the art of love from Ovid. Visit villas and gardens with Edith Wharton. Enjoy Rome’s myriad moods and pleasures with Robert Browning, Eleanor Clark, Susan Vreeland, and many others. An irresistible collection of writing about one of the world’s most beloved destinations, The Smiles of Rome spans the centuries from ancient times to the present day. Each essay resonates with the richness and turmoil of the past and overflows with a great wealth of fascinating facts and intriguing tidbits for today’s avid readers and travelers. “Rome,” writes Susan Cahill, “has the power to blow your mind and heart.” This delicious, many-layered collection honoring the city that is the heart and soul of European civilization has the same power to thrill.

Author : Susan Cahill
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1417708301

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Smiles of Rome by Susan Cahill Pdf

For lovers of Italy and travelers alike, Cahill has produced an anthology like no other, with contributions from Elizabeth Bowen, Ovid, Michelangelo, Saint Peter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Federico Fellini.

Author : Megan Williams
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781926739632

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Saving Rome by Megan Williams Pdf

In her debut collection, Rome-based writer and correspondent Megan K. Williams serves up the Eternal City as you've never seen it before, turning an insider's eye on the love, mystery and unholy chaos of Rome. In nine funny and insightful stories, Williams delves into the lives of women searching for meaning (and survival) in an ancient metropolis awhirl in honking Fiats, smouldering cigarettes and teetering high heels. Piercing, quirky, hilarious and heartbreaking, Saving Rome's women are trapped in a new-millennium Roman circus sideshow. One follows her husband to Italy only to become obsessed with an eccentric pet-shop owner. Another, a rattled mother, gives a carabiniere officer the finger over a parking dispute, and is horrified when he trails her home. Not to mention the jilted innamorata who pushes her tour-guide host to the thin edge of sanity.

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520401495

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Laughter in Ancient Rome by Mary Beard Pdf

What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear--a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena? Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing--from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book--Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves. From ancient "monkey business" to the role of a chuckle in a culture of tyranny, she explores Roman humor from the hilarious, to the momentous, to the surprising. But she also reflects on even bigger historical questions. What kind of history of laughter can we possibly tell? Can we ever really "get" the Romans' jokes?

Author : Geraldine Guadagno
Publisher : New City Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781565486003

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John of the Smiles by Geraldine Guadagno Pdf

This is the story of a 5-year-old boy with cancer who brought a ray of sunshine into the lives of people around him. John seemed to have an innate understanding of and ability to love. Those qualities endeared him to many, and were the driving force behind the worldwide spread of his story. Like all stories of heroes facing impossible odds, it deserves telling and retelling.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018879316

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A guide from the Church of Rome to the Church of Christ. By a minister of the gospel, formerly a Roman Catholic by Anonim Pdf

Author : Theodor Mommsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Rome
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118216469

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The History of Rome by Theodor Mommsen Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Bailey
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784622879

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Interpreting Italians by Jeffrey Bailey Pdf

“The primary goal of this volume is to help prepare foreign visitors for what awaits them, and to offer a deeper insight into a culture and way of life that has held so many millions in its thrall.” Interpreting Italians is a socio-cultural travel guide designed for people whose interest in Italy goes beyond the readymade impression or the hackneyed cliché. It is a serious effort to understand what the ‘Italian temperament’ actually is, how it came to be, and the impact it has had both on Italians themselves and on the outsiders who attempt to live intimately and knowledgeably among them. To this end, it offers a thoughtful interpretation of those aspects of Italian culture and history – furbiziaand bella figura, the piazza and the casa, the role of the mother, the extravagance of the Baroque and the personal as well as architectural significance of the façade – that have at once reflected and compounded Italians’ attitudes to foreigners and to each other by examining their approaches to love and sex, religion and politics, food and the family, language and bureaucracy, regionalism and immigration, sport and the Mafia. The book consists of eighteen concise but well-documented essays and five appendices that, in addition to an extensive reading list, provide practical suggestions to visitors relating to the preparation of menus and the selection of walking tours and excursions to sites often overlooked by the casual tourist.Interpreting Italians will be a useful aid to anyone truly curious about discovering what makes Italians tick.

Author : Theodor Mommsen
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 2264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664117014

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The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen Pdf

"The History of Rome" is multi-volume research of ancient Rome written by Theodor Mommsen, one of the classics of historical science. Mommsen rejected traditional Enlightenment-era tone, which used to glorify ancient Rome. Instead, based on a new and rigorous criticism of sources, Mommsen began the demythologization of Roman history. In 1902, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and acclaimed as "the greatest living master of the art of historical writing."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF005709023

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The History of Rome by Theodor Mommsen by Anonim Pdf

Author : Theodor Mommsen
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 2023 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9788026894100

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The History of Rome (Complete Edition: Vol. 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen Pdf

The History of Rome is a five volume history of ancient Rome written by Theodor Mommsen, dealing mainly with the Roman Republic. First volume deals with the Roman origins and covers the period anterior to the abolition of the Monarchy. Second volume depicts events from the abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the union of Italy. Third volume deals with the Punic Wars and the subjugation of Carthage and the Greek states. Volume four covers the Revolution, dealing with the Gracchi, Marius, Drusus, and Sulla. Final volume covers the Civil War and the establishment of the military monarchy during the reign of Julius Caesar.

Author : E. M. Berens
Publisher : Blackie & Son
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Legends
ISBN : OXFORD:590075227

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The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens Pdf

Author : L. J. Nolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Anglican converts
ISBN : BL:A0018896031

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Reasons for Leaving the Church of Rome by L. J. Nolan Pdf

Author : George A. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : MINN:319510024109641

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The Illustrated History of Rome by George A. Smith Pdf

Author : Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1904-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465545855

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A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge Pdf

This work will be comprised in six volumes. According to the plan which I have provisionally laid down, the second volume will cover the period from 104 to 70 B.C., ending with the first consulship of Pompeius and Crassus; the third, the period from 70 to 44 B.C., closing with the death of Caesar; the fourth volume will probably be occupied by the Third Civil War and the rule of Augustus, while the fifth and sixth will cover the reigns of the Emperors to the accession of Vespasian. The original sources, on which the greater part of the contents of the present volume is based, have been collected during the last few years by Miss Clay and myself, and have already been published in an abbreviated form. Some idea of the debt which I owe to modern authors may be gathered from the references in the footnotes. As I have often, for the sake of brevity, cited the works of these authors by shortened and incomplete titles, I have thought it advisable to add to the volume a list of the full titles of the works referred to. But the list makes no pretence to be a full bibliography of the period of history with which this volume deals. The map of the Wäd Mellag and its surrounding territory, which I have inserted to illustrate the probable site of the battle of the Muthul, is taken from the map of the "Medjerda supérieure" which appears in M. Salomon Reinach's Atlas de la Province Romaine d'Afrique. I am very much indebted to my friend and former pupil, Mr. E.J. Harding, of Hertford College, for the ungrudging labour which he has bestowed on the proofs of the whole of this volume. Many improvements in the form of the work are due to his perspicacity and judgment.