Rome
Subtitle: continuing encounters between past and present
By: Dorigen Caldwell and Lesley Caldwell
Contributors: Caldwell, Lesley
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781409417620
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Historic sites; Intellectual life; Streets; Antiquities; Social change; Civilization; Architecture; City and town life; History
Description: This text comprises a series of studies of the evolution of the city of Rome and the ways in which it has represented and reconfigured itself, to itself, from the medieval period to the present day.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Continuities of place / Dorigen Caldwell; title: Roman archaeology in medieval Rome / Caroline J. Goodson; title: Roma Renascens : sixteenth-century maps of the Eternal City / Jessica Maier; title: Time concertinaed at the altar of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere / Emma Stirrup; title: Lione Pascoli, Giovanni Gaetano Bottari, Giovanni Battista Nolli : functions and topography of the city in the eighteenth century / Mario Bevilacqua; title: The political topography of modern Rome, 1870-1936 : Via XX Settembre to Via dell' Impero / Terry Kirk; title: "Reconciliation" or "conquest"? : the opening of the Via della Conciliazione and the fascist vision for the "Third Rome" / Aristotle Kallis; title: "An extraordinary proliferation of layers" : Pasolini's Rome(s) / Jacopo Benci; title: Piazza Vittorio : cinematic notes on the evolution of a piazza / Lesley Caldwell; title: Archaeology and the modern city : thoughts on Rome (and elsewhere) / Daniele Manacorda.