Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-186) and index.
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To See Rome is to See Everything -- Encountering Rome: Ancient Origins -- The Imperial Made Sacred: Early Christian Rome -- The Cow Hills and Belltowers of Medieval Rome -- Being Geniuses Together: Early and High Renaissance Rome -- The Grand Tourists Arrive in Rome -- Romantic Poets in Rome -- The Americans Arrive -- City of Romance, City of Mystery.
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Presents a guide to locations in Rome with literary significance while discussing the city's influences on foreign writers such as Goethe, Byron, Shelley and Milton. Chapters are divided into periods such as ancient Rome, early Christian Rome, medieval Rome, Renaissance Rome and romantic Rome. Discusses American writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton and Henry James who spent time in Rome. Also includes photographs, citations and suggestions for further reading.