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Rome: The Biography of a City [Kindle Edition]

Christopher Hibbert (Author)
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This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City. It covers 3,000 years of history from the city�s quasi-mythical origins, through the Etruscan kings, the opulent glory of classical Rome, the decadence and decay of the Middle Ages and the beauty and corruption of the Renaissance, to its time at the heart of Mussolini�s fascist Italy. Exploring the city�s streets and buildings, peopled with popes, gladiators, emperors, noblemen and peasants, this volume details the turbulent and dramatic history of Rome in all its depravity and grandeur.

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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Very Revealing 15 Dec 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Hibbert's book is an essential companion for anyone interested in the 'Caput Mundi': it's very well laid out; to the point; honest and extremely interesting, as any book should be when its intention is to describe the evolution of one of the world's oldest and most historically relevant cities. Put down your wishy-washy tourist book and pick up this. The one pity is that it's a bit big and not very portable if one wants to pass through Rome as a back packer which is the situation I found myself in reading it. Anyway, get it for before or after.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Hibbert's history of Rome, from Romulus to Mussolini, is an excellent introduction to the events that have shaped this incredible city.

This is not a history of the Roman Republic, Empire, Papacy, Renaissance or Risorgimento. Instead the focus remains fixed on the city of Rome itself: its buildings, reputation and inhabitants. Its streets and piazzas have witnessed so many of the crucial moments in these states and movements but Hibbert's work ventures away from the city walls only for a full introduction to events within.

The history adds an additional element to any visit to Rome, not only providing a history of the major landmarks but also helping the visitor imagine the city in lost eras. The only major improvement needed is a better map (or collection of maps) as the current one makes following the action frustratingly difficult.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This book collects all the history and stories of Rome and brings them all together in a masterful blend of history, information and excitement that only Christopher Hibbert knows how. The book begins in the hills of Rome with the legend of Romulus, Remus and the she wolf. From here Hibbert quite quickly moves through the early history of Rome as a city of Kings into its most obvious history as that of the capital of the Roman empire. This section is very informative, however anyone looking for some deep insight into Roman history should look elsewhere as this book does not dwell on anything other than what affected Rome. The fall of the empire is followed by a section in which there seems to be a lot of names and places that play a role in Rome of the past and the book focuses on the Dark ages of Rome with invasion and destruction. The best section of the book focuses on the Renaissance period that contains the Rome we all know of today and this is when Rome gains her mantle as the city that founded the Renaissance. The latter sections of the book that contain modern Rome and the Mussolini years are quite boring and to be honest are once again name dropping pages and add little to the book, however they do provide a nice era and section to end the book on.
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