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Rome and a Villa

By Eleanor Clark

Rome and a Villa

By Eleanor Clark

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
2015-02-10
Publication Date:
2020-01-15
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0062363409
ISBN13:
9780062363404
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
672 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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