From Italy's popular author Corrado Augias comes the most intriguing exploration of Rome ever to be published. In the mold of his earlier histories of Paris, New York, and London, Augias moves perceptively through twenty-seven centuries of Roman life, shedding new light on a cast of famous, and infamous, historical figures and uncovering secrets and conspiracies that have shaped the city without our ever knowing it. From Rome's origins as Romulus's stomping ground to the dark atmosphere of the Middle Ages; from Caesar's unscrupulousness to Caravaggio's lurid genius; from the notorious Lucrezia Borgia to the seductive Anna Fallarino, the marchioness at the center of one of Rome's most heinous crimes of the post-war period, Augias creates a sweeping account of the passions that have shaped this complex city: at once both a metropolis and a village, where all human sentiment-bravery and cowardice, industriousness and sloth, enterprise and laxity-find their interpreters and stage. If the history of humankind is all passion and uproar, then, as the author notes, "for centuries Rome has been the mirror of this history, reflecting with excruciating accuracy every detail, even those that might cause you to avert your gaze."

The Secrets of Rome: Love and Death in the Eternal City

History

Augias, Corrado

Europe

Rizzoli Ex Libris

One of Italy's best-known writers takes a Grand Tour through her cities, history, and literature in search of the true character of this contradictory nation. There is Michelangelo, but also the mafia. Pavarotti, but also Berlusconi. The debonair Milanese, but also the infamous captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. This is Italy, admired and reviled, a country that has guarded her secrets and confounded outsiders. Now, when this "Italian paradox" is more evident than ever, cultural authority Corrado Augias poses the puzzling questions: how did it get this way? How can this peninsula be simultaneously the home of geniuses and criminals, the cradle of beauty and the butt of jokes? An instant #1 bestseller in Italy, Augias's latest sets out to rediscover the story-different from the history-of this country. Beginning with how Italy is seen from the outside and from the inside, he weaves a geo-historical narrative, passing through principal cities and rereading the classics and the biographies of the people that have, for better or worse, made Italians who they are. From the gloomy atmosphere of Cagliostro's Palermo to the elegant court of Maria Luigia in Parma, from the ghetto of Venice to the heroic Neapolitan uprising against the Nazis, Augias sheds light on the Italian character, explaining it to outsiders and to Italians themselves. The result is a "novel of a nation," whose protagonists are both the figures we know from history and literature and characters long hidden between the cracks of historical narrative and memory.

The Secrets of Italy: People, Places, and Hidden Histories

Pocas ciudades en el mundo tienen el encanto, la tradición y el sabor de la capital italiana. Paseando por sus calles se siente y se comprende una parte muy importante de la historia de Occidente. Entre sus muros, junto al río, en el Trastevere o en los Foros se ha fraguado una civilización, la nuestra, que todavía hoy sigu

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Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

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Christian Books & Bibles

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Theology

Un grande ritratto di Roma, ricco di sorprese e novità, nel quale Corrado Augias racconta il volto segreto della capitale e le molte storie che hanno contribuito a renderla unica e immortale. Dalla rozzezza dei suoi primi abitanti (un gruppo di manigoldi capitanati da Romolo) alla gloria del Rinascimento, dalla sregolatezza di Nerone alla tenebrosa genialità di Caravaggio, dal fascino di Lucrezia Borgia - "la più bella dama di Roma" alle avventure del palazzo di Montecitorio, questa cavalcata nel tempo, che si chiude con le "illusioni" di Cinecittà e la costruzione del nuovo quartiere dell'Eur, darà al lettore un'interpretazione dell'unica città "antica" che da ventisette secoli continua a essere protagonista della storia.

I segreti di Roma (Italian Edition)

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