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The Rome We Have Lost
For a thousand years Rome was enshrined in myth and legend as the Eternal City No Grand Tour would be complete without a visit to its ruins But from 1870 all that changed A millennium ended as its solitary moonlit ruins became floodlit monuments on traffic islands and its perimeter shifted from the ancient nineteen-kilometre wall with twelve gates to a fifty-kilometre ring road with thirty-three roundabouts and spaghetti junctions The Rome We Have Lost is the first full investigation of this change John Pemble musters popes emperors writers exiles and tourists to weave a rich fabric of Roman experience He tells the story of how why and with what consequences that Rome centre of Europe and the world became a national capital no longer central and unique but marginal and very similar in its
problems and its solutions to other modern cities with a heavy burden of 'heritage' This far-reaching book illuminates the historical significance of Rome's transformation and the crisis that Europe is now confronting as it struggles to re-invent without its ancestral centre - the city that had made Europe what it was and defined what it meant to be European
problems and its solutions to other modern cities with a heavy burden of 'heritage' This far-reaching book illuminates the historical significance of Rome's transformation and the crisis that Europe is now confronting as it struggles to re-invent without its ancestral centre - the city that had made Europe what it was and defined what it meant to be European
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