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And So To Rome: Cecil Roberts
And So To Rome: Cecil Roberts
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Roberts' survey of 2000 years in the life of the greatest city in history is a pageant with frequent excursions into the trivia of ancient scandals and the excesses of papal and other tyrants.He takes a famous Roman castle, villa or ruin and recalls to its battlements, boudoirs or colonnades its most celebrated - or notorious - occupants. Or he looks upon a masterpiece of painting or sculpture and can tell a long tale with gossipy tidbits. He also muses - and presents observations - on the way in which Rome presents an "astonishing graph" of the rise and fall of the Roman people Fine illustrations and photographs.
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1st edition Hodder and Stoughton 1950; hardback; dust jacket is poor and as depicted; previous owner's name; decorative endpapers; tightly bound and clean within, Autobiography/Bio/Non-FictionShare
