Rome

Fülszöveg

"Rome gives much and asks much: the agility to
leap back and forth over the centuries, following
mazes in several dimensions, swooping, darting,
rising, and falling through layers of time/' With
Kate Simon as your guide, it becomes possible to
enjoy this most complex and challenging city to
the full—yet without sinking beneath the extra-
ordinary wealth of art, architecture, history, and
other, more contemporary delights that crowd in
upon the visitor and tourist.
With her unique vision at your service, you are
helped to see what is there to be seen, yet stay
free to choose what to do and where to go accord-
ing to your time, your energy, and your taste.
At the heart of the book are seven fascinating
walks, starting at different points throughout the
city, taking you along the main thoroughfares,
plunging courageously down tiny vicoli, stopping
to note architectural details or to sample local
delicacies, and all ending at the Pantheon.
Everywhere the author... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"Rome gives much and asks much: the agility to
leap back and forth over the centuries, following
mazes in several dimensions, swooping, darting,
rising, and falling through layers of time/' With
Kate Simon as your guide, it becomes possible to
enjoy this most complex and challenging city to
the full—yet without sinking beneath the extra-
ordinary wealth of art, architecture, history, and
other, more contemporary delights that crowd in
upon the visitor and tourist.
With her unique vision at your service, you are
helped to see what is there to be seen, yet stay
free to choose what to do and where to go accord-
ing to your time, your energy, and your taste.
At the heart of the book are seven fascinating
walks, starting at different points throughout the
city, taking you along the main thoroughfares,
plunging courageously down tiny vicoli, stopping
to note architectural details or to sample local
delicacies, and all ending at the Pantheon.
Everywhere the author reveals the little-known
"wisps of fact" about a place, the curious customs,
the legends that have grown up. She highlights the
famous and she uncovers the odd pleasures that
are to be found just off the beaten track: the sight
of nuns playing football; a visit to the chapel of
S. Zenone (otherwise known as the Garden of
Paradise), which at one time was closed to women
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except on Sundays in Lent; a letter in the Keats-
Shelley Memorial House from Byron's five-year-old
daughter, Allegra, asking her father to visit her
(he didn't and she died within the year). Here is
Imperial Rome, Renaissance Rome, modern Rome
—its churches, its museums, its monuments and
ruins, its fashionable shops and small specialty
stores, its hotels and restaurants, its parks, its
fountains, its very way of life.
"How splendid is Kate Simon, the incompara-
ble Kate Simon, whom no one has ever rivaled
in the long, long history of guidebooks. . . . She
has made one of the dullest forms of literature
a brilliant work of art."
—J. H. Plumb Vissza