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The hills of Rome : signature of an eternal city

Title: The hills of Rome : signature of an eternal city / Caroline Vout.
Author: Vout, Caroline.
Publication: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Description

xvii, 284 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some colored); 26 cm

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-269) and index.

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.

ISBN

9781107025974 (hard back)
1107025974 (hard back)

LCCN

2012012765
40021710605
(YBP)7426530

OCLC

ocn782128096
782128096
SCSB-9628628

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Columbia University Libraries