{"product_id":"9781841596228","title":"Rome Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Keates, Jonathan \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 02\/03\/2017,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 400 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781841596228,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring its three-thousand-year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehistory Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation and the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003espiritual core of a great world religion. For writers from antiquity to the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epresent, however, the place holds an alternative significance as a realm of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efantasy, aspiration and desire. Captivating and lethal at one and the same\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emoment, its fatal gift of beauty both transfigures and betrays those in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethrall to it. Rome Stories explores\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenaissance sculptor, 18th-century tourists, American, British and French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enovelists and the authors of modern Rome, each testing and unravelling the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecity's ageless paradoxes. Gibbon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eadmires the Last of the Tribunes, Goethe decodes the mysteries of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarnival and Stendhal's subversive aristocrats mingle revolution with a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elittle cross-dressing amid their gilt mirrors and frescoed ceilings From Plutarch to Pasolini, from Hawthorne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto Wharton, the city of Caesars and popes, of dreamers, chancers and hustlers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econfronts the questing imagination with its eternally unflinching gaze.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42264262737964,"sku":"9781841596228","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/products\/9781841596228.jpg?v=1702392935","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781841596228","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}