The Roman Forum / David Watkin.

Main entry:

Watkin, David, 1941-2018.

Title & Author:

The Roman Forum / David Watkin.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Description:

viii, 279 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.

Series:

Wonders of the world

Notes:
Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index.
Life in the Forum in antiquity -- Visiting the ancient buildings with Piranesi -- What Piranesi does not show -- Churches in the Forum -- From the Renaissance to the Grand Tour -- From Byron to King Victor Emmanuel -- From Mussolini and Hitler to holes in the ground -- Making a visit.

Summary:

"There can be few more historic places in the world. Caesar was cremated there. Charles V and Mussolini rode by it in triumph. Napoleon celebrated his Festival of Liberty there. David Watkin's Forum is the site as it was famous for centuries, celebrated in the romantic views of the Grand Tour, not the archaeologists' building site it has become. He helps us rediscover the Forum's rich history during and since antiquity, and that of the remarkable buildings which later centuries have added to this evocative place."--Global Books in Print.

ISBN:

9780674033412 (alk. paper)
0674033418 (alk. paper)
0674066308
9780674066304

Subject:

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Historic buildings Italy Rome.
Architecture, Roman Italy Rome.
City and town life Italy Rome History.
Architecture romaine Italie Rome.
Vie urbaine Italie Rome Histoire.
Antiquities.
Architecture, Roman.
Buildings.
City and town life.
Historic buildings.
Manners and customs.
Roman Forum (Rome, Italy)
Rome (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.
Rome (Italy) Antiquities.
Rome (Italy) Social life and customs.
Rome Antiquities.
Rome Social life and customs.
Forum romain (Rome, Italie)
Rome (Italie) Antiquités.
Rome (Italie) Mœurs et coutumes.
Rome Antiquités.
Italy Rome.
Italy Rome Roman Forum.
Rome (Empire)
Forum Romanum

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
History.

Added entries:

Wonders of the world (Cambridge, Mass.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 264465
Call No.: BIB 195918
Status: Available

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