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The Families Who Made Rome: A History and a Guide
The Families Who Made Rome: A
History And A Guide
    How often does a visitor
    to Rome drift towards
    some landmark - the
    palazzo Barberini, say,
    or piazza Colonna - and
    wonder who created it?
    Why? What was their
    story? This fascinating
    book provides the
    answers. It is at once a
    history and a guide,
    sumptuous and
    authoritative, with
    forty maps and sixty
    black and white
    illustrations. The guide
    divides Rome into the
    districts dominated by
    the fabulously rich
    families of the Popes:
    the Colonna, della
    Rovere, Farnese,
    Borghese, Barberini and
    others. In each case we
    learn their story -
    powerful, bloody and
    vivid - with all the
    scandals and intrigues as
    well as their
    relationships with
    artists like Bernini and
    Michelangelo. An
    itinerary with maps and
    engravings then provides
    a detailed guide to each
    family's
    monuments.

    The
    Roman nobles, turbulent
    and ambitious, placed
    their stamp on the city,
    creating the dazzling
    splendour we see today.
    No other guide describes
    the development of Rome
    in this way: this book is
    completely new,
    including colourful
    material from old diaries
    and journals. As we
    stroll through Rome's
    history - either
    literally or in the
    imagination - we discover
    it afresh. Famous sites
    like the Trevi Fountain,
    the Spanish Steps and St
    Peter's take on new
    significance as we watch
    the city rise from
    cramped medieval streets
    to become a glorious
    panorama of piazzas and
    palaces, fountains,
    towers and
    domes
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City Of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
City Of Quartz: Excavating The
Future In Los Angeles
    In this taut and
    compulsive exploration,
    Mike Davis recounts the
    story of Los Angeles with
    passion, wit and an
    acute eye for the absurd,
    the unjust and, often
    the dangerous. He tells a
    lurid tale of greed,
    manipulation, power and
    prejudice that has made
    Los Angeles one of the
    most cosmopolitan and
    most class-divided cities
    in the United States. As
    the Joshua trees are
    ripped from the desert by
    developers of walled
    communities protected by
    'armed response'
    security, as yet more
    concrete is poured to
    defend Japanese real
    estate from desperate
    migrants without work or
    hope, as a stew of
    greed, megalonamia and
    corruption wreaks ever
    more havoc on his native
    city, Davis' elegiac
    tale points to a future
    in which the sublime and
    the dreadful are
    inextricable. That future
    does not belong to
    Southern California
    alone. Terrifyingly it
    belongs to us all.
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