The smiles of Rome
Subtitle: a literary companion to readers and travelers
By: [edited by] Susan Cahill.
Contributors: Cahill, Susan Neunzig.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel.; Rome (Italy) -- Literary collections.; Rome (Italy) -- In literature.
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: Explore the Palatine with Elizabeth Bowen. Visit the temple of the Vestal Virgins with Georgina Masson. Analyze Michelangelo's Moses with Sigmund Freud. Stroll through ancient streets with Goethe and with Henry James. Share Alice Steinbach's midnight epiphany on a shabby hotel balcony. Learn the art of love from Ovid. Visit villas and gardens with Edith Wharton. Enjoy Rome's myriad moods and pleasures with Robert Browning, Eleanor Clark, Susan Vreeland, and many others.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (p. [307]-308).