"This volume provides readers interested in urban history with a collection of essays on the evolution of public space in that paradigmatic western city which is Rome."--Jacket.
Divided into five chronological sections (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern and Contemporary) this volume provides readers interested in urban history with a collection of essays on the evolution of public space in that paradigmatic western city which is Rome.…
Divided into five chronological sections (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern and Contemporary) this volume provides readers interested in urban history with a collection of essays on the evolution of public space in that paradigmatic western city which is Rome.…
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Presentation Crossroads in Space and Time -- Introduction -- Part I: Antiquity -- 1 Omnis Caesareo cedit labor Amphitheatro, unum pro cunctis fama loquetur opus (Mart., 1, 7-8) -- 2 Emperors, Baths, and Public Space: The Imperial The…
"This volume provides readers interested in urban history with a collection of essays on the evolution of public space in that paradigmatic western city which is Rome."--Jacket.