[“A Journey to Rome”] Spring sunshine over the Eternal City as the author and his wife wander up and down the legendary hills, from the stately corridors of the Vatican and the splendour of Michelangelo’s Capitol to the ruined palaces of the imperial Palatine …
They enjoy an ice cream beside the Piazza Navona, saltimbocca by the Porta Pia, an unusual chat on the Spanish Steps, and resting their feet in the Sistine Chapel …
The narrative teems with entertaining stories from the recent and distant past … The early Celts who siezed Rome and lost it … The primitive Briton who murdered the Emperor’s heir … The Royal Navy protecting Garibaldi’s Thousand … Sharp-tongued and unfortunate poets … Wise, stupid and warlike Popes … Good, bad and disastrous Emperors … The rediscovery of the Laocoön … The reclothing of Aphrodite …
ISBN: 978-1-85596-816-5
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A fifth travel book by cultured and intelligent traveller Roger Boore. This time we join him and his wife Anne on an entertaining and well-informed tour of Rome.