Death in Rome
Contributors: Michael Hofmann (Translator)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780393321944
First sentence: Once upon a time, this city was a home to gods, now there's only Raphael in the Pantheon, a demigod, a darling of Apollo's, but the corpses that joined him later are a sorry bunch, a cardinal of dubious merit, a couple of monarchs and their purblind generals, high-flying civil servants, scholars that made it into the reference books, artists of academic distinction.