If you’re planning to visit Rome before you die, it pays to prepare for the experience. Here are 10 books and movies to help you understand what you see in the Roman Forum, at the Vatican and on the ...
A strong sense of place can deeply influence a story, and in some cases, the setting can even feel like a character itself. This week’s literary geography quiz celebrates Rome and books set around ...
If you’re planning to visit Rome before you die, it pays to prepare for the experience. Here are 10 books and movies to help you understand what you see in the Roman Forum, at the Vatican and on the ...
Ever since Livy dipped his quill and Gibbon marked his proofs, histories of Rome have been a dime a dozen. But there is only one Robert Hughes—only one writer, it's safe to say, who would describe the ...
Eleanor Clark went to Rome to write a novel and came back with this ethereal book instead. It's part travelogue, part history, part memoir, and altogether wonderful. When you're in Rome, she writes, ...
We all know the story behind the foundation of Rome: in 753 B.C. (or thereabouts), two baby brothers, Romulus and Remus, the sons of Mars and the Vestal Virgin Rhea Silvia, got separated from their ...
CARDINAL NEWMAN—J. Lewis May—Dial ($3.50). John Henry Cardinal Newman, onetime hope of the Anglicans, then convert to Roman Catholicism, finally acknowledged prince of his adopted church, author ...
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