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Families Who Made Rome

Anthony Majanlahti
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781844134090
  • Weight: 520g
  • Dimensions: 154 x 232mm
  • Publication Date: 04 May 2006
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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How often does a visitor to Rome drift towards some landmark and wonder who created it? Why? What was their story? This fascinating book provides the answers. At once a history and a guide, it divides Rome into the districts dominated by the fabulously rich families of the Popes: the Colonna, della Rovere, Farnese, Borghese, Barberini and others. In each case we learn their story - powerful, bloody and vivid - with all the scandals and intrigues as well as their relationships with artists like Bernini and Michelangelo.

As we stroll through Rome's history - either literally or in the imagination - we discover it afresh. Famous sites like the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps and St Peter's take on new significance as we watch the city rise from cramped medieval streets to become a glorious panorama of piazzas and palaces, fountains, towers and domes.
About Anthony Majanlahti
Anthony Majanlahti was born in Montreal, Canada, and studied at the University of Toronto: his doctoral research is on the English community in Rome during the Renaissance. He has worked in many areas - as a producer of fashion shows, and a stockbroker's apprentice and as a research fellow at the British School at Rome. He divides his time between Rome, London and Toronto.

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