Romans do nothing by halves. Nowhere is the espresso more bitter, the monuments as grandiose, the intrigue so ancient and the style as contrived. This book sets out to show the true Rome and the true Romans. It provides a mixture of history, literature and politics via diarists and commentators who chronicle generations of Roman hedonism and decay. It offers information on the Rome of the Popes; the poet Shelley, in happiness and tragedy; Sheridan's unravelling of the curious story of Mussolini's son-in-law and the British ...
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Romans do nothing by halves. Nowhere is the espresso more bitter, the monuments as grandiose, the intrigue so ancient and the style as contrived. This book sets out to show the true Rome and the true Romans. It provides a mixture of history, literature and politics via diarists and commentators who chronicle generations of Roman hedonism and decay. It offers information on the Rome of the Popes; the poet Shelley, in happiness and tragedy; Sheridan's unravelling of the curious story of Mussolini's son-in-law and the British ambassador; the Moro and Calvi affairs and other scandals.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0312131585. Book is fine. DJ has very light shelfwear.; Romans do nothing by halves-nowhere is the espresso more bitter, the monuments as grandiose, the intrigue so ancient and the style as contrived. In this book, the author, a former correspondent, shows readers the true Rome and the true Romans. The book provides an evocative mixture of history, literature, and politics, including diarists and commentators to chronicle almost every generation of Roman hedonism and decay. Here is the Rome of the Popes, of a poet who loathed priests-Shelley, his wife and their son-in happiness and in tragedy. Here too are the city's intimitable railways, its innumerable cats. Sheridan the historian unravels the curious story of Mussloini's son-in-law and the British ambassador and as befits his period as a leading newspaper correspondent, new thoughts on Don Giulio Andreotti, seven times Prime Minister, as well as the Moro and Calvi affairs and other scandals.; 202 pages.
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A compendium of essays about Rome, its history and its people, from an English journalist who loves it and has spent some years there.
There are chapters dealing with various popes and cardinals, Keats and Shelley ( both of whom died and are buried there) the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, Stendhal, the superb cathedral of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, and the Latin language, all written in a fluid style that occasionally comes close to poetry.
What emerges is a feeling; a taste of the style and cultural wealth and importance of the Eternal City. It inspired me to visit Rome, and I suspect it would do the same for others.
