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The hills of Rome : signature of an eternal city / Caroline Vout.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vout, Caroline.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rome (Italy)--Description and travel.
- Rome (Italy).
- Rome--History.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 284 pages : illustrations (some colorful) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the journey to Rome
- The map
- The itinerary
- The 'take home' message
- The lie of the land
- The seven hills of Rome, republic and empire
- After the high Roman fashion
- The renaissance of the seven hills
- Nineteenth and twentieth-century encounters
- Seven is the magic number
- An invention of tradition
- The potency and possibility of the number seven
- Varro's contribution to the story
- Before the mountains were settled
- Rome, la città eterna
- The seven hills and the ambitions of empire
- Dizzy heights under the Flavians
- The rise and fall of Rome in late antiquity
- Postscript
- Painting by numbers
- The limits of representation
- The seven hills of renaissance artists and patrons
- Nineteenth-century ways of seeing
- On top of the world
- Villas and gardens
- In the thick of it
- Getting the measure of the whole of Rome
- Framing a view from the Capitoline or Palatine
- The imperial gaze
- Divine omniscience
- Signing off
- The history of an idea
- Geography as history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-269) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781107025974
- 1107025974
- OCLC:
- 782128096
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