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Subject(s)

• Roman Forum (Rome, Italy) [Browse]
• Historic buildings—Italy—Rome [Browse]
• Rome (Italy)—Buildings, structures, etc [Browse]
• Architecture, Roman—Italy—Rome [Browse]
• Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720-1778 [Browse]
• Rome (Italy)—Antiquities [Browse]
• City and town life—Italy—Rome—History [Browse]
• Rome (Italy)—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Rome—Antiquities [Browse]
• Rome—Social life and customs [Browse]

Series

• Wonders of the world (Cambridge, Mass.) [More in this series]
• Wonders of the world

Notes

Originally published : London : Profile Books, 2009.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-246) and index.

Contents

• Life in the Forum in antiquity
• Visiting the ancient buildings with Piranesi
• What Piranesi does not show
• Churches in the Forum
• From the Renaissance to the Grand Tour
• From Byron to King Victor Emmanuel
• From Mussolini and Hitler to holes in the ground
• Making a visit.

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ISBN

• 9780674033412 (alk. paper) :
• 0674033418 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2009006785

OCLC

288915916

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