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"These essays gather up Rome and hold it before us, bristling and dense and dreamlike, with every scene drenched in the sound of fountains, of leaping and falling water." -- The New Yorker
"Perhaps the finest book ever to be written about a city." -- New York Times
Bringing to life the legendary city's beauty and magic in all its many facets, Eleanor Clark's masterful collection of vignettes, Rome and a Villa, has transported readers for generations.
In 1947 a young american woman named Eleanor Clark went to Rome on a Guggenheim fellowship to write a novel. But instead of a novel, Clark created a series of sketches of Roman life written mostly between 1948 and 1951. Wandering the streets of this legendary city, Eleanor fell under Rome's spell--its pace of life, the wry outlook of its men and women, its magnificent history and breathtaking contribution to world culture. Rome is life itself--a sensuous, hectic, chaotic, and utterly fascinating blend of the comic and the tragic. Clark highlights Roman art and architecture, including Hadrian's Villa--an enormous, unfinished palace--as a prism to view the city and its history, and offers a lovely portrait of the Cimitero acattolico--long known as the Protestant cemetery--where Keats, Shelley, and other foreign notables rest.
Author: Eleanor Clark
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 02/10/2015
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780062363404
ISBN10: 0062363409
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Europe | Spain & Portugal
- Travel | Europe | Italy
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues