Rome

A fresh, lively and welcome retrospect on one of the Mediterranean's most complex and challenging stories' TLS.

Vorwort

A thrilling portrait of the city at the heart of Western civilization, brought to life in twenty-two scenes from its 2,500-year history.

Autorentext
Ferdinand Addis read classics at Oxford, before embarking on a career as a journalist and author. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Klappentext

The history of the city of Rome is broken down into twenty-two pivotal episodes in which events there set the course of Western civilisation, with close analysis of Caesar's assassination, Bernini's creation of St Peter's Basilica, the degeneration of Mussolini and the era of "La Dolce Vita". In a similar vein to Simon Sebag Montefiore's "Jerusalem: A Biography".