The Hills of Rome
Signature of an Eternal City
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 15 September 2016
- ISBN 9781107678712
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 230x153x18 mm
- Weight 470 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 72 b/w illus. 27 colour illus. 1 map 0
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Short description:
This book explores the clich&&&233; of 'the city of seven hills' and how, since antiquity, it has shaped experience of the city.
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Rome is 'the city of seven hills'. This book examines the need for the 'seven hills' clich&&&233;, its origins, development, impact and borrowing. It explores how the clich&&&233; relates to Rome's real volcanic terrain and how it is fundamental to how we define this. Its chronological remit is capacious: Varro, Virgil and Claudian at one end, on, through the work of Renaissance antiquarians, to embrace frescoes and nineteenth-century engravings. These artists and authors celebrated the hills and the views from these hills, in an attempt to capture Rome holistically. By studying their efforts, this book confronts the problems of encapsulating Rome and 'cityness' more broadly and indeed the artificiality of any representation, whether a painting, poem or map. In this sense, it is not a history of the city at any one moment in time, but a history of how the city has been, and has to be, perceived.
'For tracing the history of a seemingly over-familiar idea Caroline Vout's book sets a new and high standard.' The Times Literary Supplement
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: the journey to Rome; 2. The lie of the land; 3. Seven is the magic number; 4. Rome, la citt... eterna; 5. Painting by numbers; 6. On top of the world; 7. Signing off.
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