Rome Is Love Spelled Backward

Rome Is Love Spelled Backward
Title Rome Is Love Spelled Backward PDF eBook
Author Judith Testa
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 334
Release 1998-04-01
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1609092503

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A celebration of the art, architecture, and timeless human passion of the Eternal City, Rome Is Love Spelled Backward explores Rome's best-known treasures, often revealing secrets overlooked in conventional guidebooks. With the ancient play on "Roma" and "Amor"—ROMAMOR—Testa invites readers to experience the world's long love affair with one of its most beautiful cities.

Sowboy

Sowboy
Title Sowboy PDF eBook
Author Richard Miller
Publisher DFI Books, Dada Foundation Imprints
Pages 248
Release 2003
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780965842341

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Sowboy follows the twin trails of porcine practicality and youthful idealism into the future when George III is president, the environment is falling apart, and flies can think.

Ancient Rome and the Modern Italian State

Ancient Rome and the Modern Italian State
Title Ancient Rome and the Modern Italian State PDF eBook
Author Alessandro Sebastiani
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 305
Release 2023-06-30
Genre Art
ISBN 1009354108

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Using Rome as a case study, this book examines how architecture and urbanism can be used to construct national identity.

Through Time and the City

Through Time and the City
Title Through Time and the City PDF eBook
Author Kristi Cheramie
Publisher Routledge
Pages 316
Release 2020-09-22
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1317340760

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Through Time and the City: Notes on Rome offers a new approach to exploring cities. Using Rome as a guide, the book follows familiar sites, geographies, and characters in search of their role within a larger narrative that includes the environmental processes required to generate enough space and material for the city, the emergent ecologies to which its buildings play host, and the social patterns its various structures help to organize. Through Time and the City argues that Rome is made and unmade by an endlessly evolving chorus that has, for better or worse, gained geological legitimacy; that the city absorbs and emits countless artifacts in its search for collective identity; that the city is a platform for the constant staging of negotiations between agents (humans, buildings, plants, animals, pathogens, goods, waste, water) that drive and are driven by the entanglements of climate and culture. This book provides textual and visual frameworks for identifying the material traces, emergent patterns, or speculated futures that expose a city as inseparable from its capacity to change.

Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England

Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England
Title Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Routledge
Pages 265
Release
Genre
ISBN 1134172877

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Luther's Rome, Rome's Luther

Luther's Rome, Rome's Luther
Title Luther's Rome, Rome's Luther PDF eBook
Author Carl P. E. Springer
Publisher Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Pages 321
Release 2021
Genre Religion
ISBN 1506472028

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This book reconsiders the question of Martin Luther's relationship with Rome in all its sixteenth-century manifestations: the early-modern city he visited as a young man, the ancient republic and empire whose language and literature he loved, the Holy Roman Empire of which he was a subject, and the sacred seat of the papacy. It will appeal to scholars as well as lay readers, especially those interested in Rome, the reception of the classics in the Reformation, Luther studies, and early-modern history. Springer's methodology is primarily literary-critical, and he analyzes a variety of texts--prose and poetry--throughout the book. Some of these speak for themselves, while Springer examines others more closely to tease out their possible meanings. The author also situates relevant texts within their appropriate contexts, as the topics in the book are interdisciplinary. While many of Luther's references to Rome are negative, especially in his later writings, Springer argues that his attitude to the city in general was more complicated than has often been supposed. If Rome had not once been so dear to Luther, it is unlikely that his later animosity would have been so intense. Springer shows that Luther continued to be deeply fascinated by Rome until the end of his life and contends that what is often thought of as his pure hatred of Rome is better analyzed as a kind of love-hate relationship with the venerable city.

Palimpsest

Palimpsest
Title Palimpsest PDF eBook
Author Gore Vidal
Publisher Vintage
Pages 481
Release 2021-11-16
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0593314409

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Vidal on Vidal—a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subject. A New York Times best American memoir “In the hands of Gore Vidal, a pen is a sword. And he points it at the high and mighty who have crossed his path.” —Los Angeles Times Palimpsest is Gore Vidal's account of the first thirty-nine years of his life as a novelist, dramatist, critic, political activist and candidate, screenwriter, television commentator, controversialist, and a man who knew pretty much everybody worth knowing (from Amelia Earhart to Eleanor Roosevelt, the Duke and the Duchess of Windsor, Jack Kennedy, Jaqueline Kennedy, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Andre Gide, and Tennessee Williams, and on and on). Here, recalled with the charm and razor wit of one of the great raconteurs of our time, are his birth into a DC political clan; his school days; his service in World War II; his emergence as a literary wunderkind in New York; his time in Hollywood, London, Paris and Rome; his campaign for Congress (outpolling JFK in his district); and his legendary feuds with, among many others, Truman Capote and William F. Buckley. At the emotional heart of this book is his evocation of his first and greatest love, boyhood friend Jimmy Trimble, killed in battle on Iwo Jima.