Artículos relacionados a Secrets of Rome: Love and Death in the Eternal City...

Secrets of Rome: Love and Death in the Eternal City [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa blanda

Augias, Corrado

 
9780847842766: Secrets of Rome: Love and Death in the Eternal City [Idioma Inglés]
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 0847842762 ISBN 13: 9780847842766
Editorial: Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2014

Sinopsis

From one of Italy's best-known writers comes an exploration of the Eternal City from a fresh and intriguing new angle. Corrado Augias moves perceptively through twenty-seven centuries of Roman life, shedding new light on a cast of famous, and infamous, historical figures and uncovering secrets and conspiracies that have shaped the city without our ever knowing it. From Rome's origins as Romulus's stomping ground to the dark atmosphere of the Middle Ages; from Caesar's unscrupulousness to Caravaggio's lurid genius; from the notorious Lucrezia Borgia to the seductive Anna Fallarino, the marchioness at the center of one of Rome's most heinous crimes of the post-war period, Augias creates a sweeping account of the passions that have shaped this complex city: at once both a metropolis and a village, where all human sentiment-bravery and cowardice, industriousness and sloth, enterprise and laxity-find their interpreters and stage. If the history of humankind is all passion and uproar, then, as the author notes, for centuries Rome has been the mirror of this history, reflecting with excruciating accuracy every detail, even those that might cause you to avert your gaze.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

Corrado Augias is a celebrated author and journalist who has worked as a correspondent for L'Espresso and La Republica.

De la contraportada

From one of Italy's best-known writers comes an exploration of the Eternal City from a fresh and intriguing new angle. Corrado Augias moves perceptively through twenty-seven centuries of Roman life, shedding new light on a cast of famous, and infamous, historical figures and uncovering secrets and conspiracies that have shaped the city without our ever knowing it. From Rome's origins as Romulus's stomping ground to the dark atmosphere of the Middle Ages; from Caesar's unscrupulousness to Caravaggio's lurid genius; from the notorious Lucrezia Borgia to the seductive Anna Fallarino, the marchioness at the center of one of Rome's most heinous crimes of the post-war period, Augias creates a sweeping account of the passions that have shaped this complex city: at once both a metropolis and a village, where all human sentiment-bravery and cowardice, industriousness and sloth, enterprise and laxity-find their interpreters and stage. If the history of humankind is all passion and uproar, then, as the author notes, for centuries Rome has been the mirror of this history, reflecting with excruciating accuracy every detail, even those that might cause you to avert your gaze.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Rizzoli Ex Libris
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0847842762
ISBN 13 
9780847842766
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
406
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
no disponible