From Plutarch to Pasolini, from Henry James to Alberto Moravia, this
collection of classic tales of the Eternal City draws on a wide range of
brilliant writers from ancient times to the present. A gorgeously
jacketed hardcover anthology. EVERYMAN'S POCKET CLASSICS.
During its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial
metropolis, the capital of a nation, and the spiritual core of a world
religion. For writers from antiquity to the present, however, it has
long served as a realm of fantasy, aspiration, and desire. Captivating
and lethal at one and the same moment, its beauty both transfigures and
betrays those in thrall to it. Rome Stories explores the city's
fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, Renaissance
sculptors, Enlightenment poets and philosophers, American, British, and
French novelists, and the writers of modern Italy.