An edition of The hills of Rome
(2012)
The hills of Rome
signature of an eternal city
by Caroline Vout
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Description and travel, History, Rome (italy), description and travel, Rome, history, Travel, Hügel, Rom, Stadtbeschreibung, Geschichtsbild, Vedute, KunstPlaces
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Table of Contents
Introduction: the journey to Rome
The map
The itinerary
The 'take home' message
The lie of the land
The seven hills of Rome, republic and empire
After the high Roman fashion
The renaissance of the seven hills
Nineteenth and twentieth-century encounters
Seven is the magic number
An invention of tradition
The potency and possibility of the number seven
Varro's contribution to the story
Before the mountains were settled
Rome, la città eterna
The seven hills and the ambitions of empire
Dizzy heights under the Flavians
The rise and fall of Rome in late antiquity
Postscript
Painting by numbers
The limits of representation
The seven hills of renaissance artists and patrons
Nineteenth-century ways of seeing
On top of the world
Villas and gardens
In the thick of it
Getting the measure of the whole of Rome
Framing a view from the Capitoline or Palatine
The imperial gaze
Divine omniscience
Signing off
The history of an idea
Geography as history.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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