"Lonely Planet Best of Rome is your passport to the Rome's top sights and most authentic experiences. Toss a coin into the Trevi Fountain, dine like a local in Trastevere, and blow your mind on the Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museums; all with your trusted travel companion. Offer…
The frescos of Peruzzi, Raphael and Sodoma still dazzle visitors to the Villa Farnesina, but they survive in a stripped-down environment bereft of its landscape, sealed so it cannot breathe. Turner takes you outside the box, restoring these canonical images to their original con…
"The Roman Forum was in many ways the heart of the Roman Empire. Today, the Forum exists in a fragmentary state, having been destroyed and plundered by barbarians, aristocrats, citizens and priests over the past two millennia. Enough remains, however, for archaeologists to recon…
by APA Publications (Firm), Zglinicki, Maciej, Steinhardt, Solveig
fromInsight guides
The Eternal City is an enduringly popular destination, from the Vatican's wealth of museum and charismatic new Pope to the evocative ruins of the Forum. Be inspired to visit by the new edition of Insight Rome City Guide, a comprehensive full-colour guide to the Italian capital.
by APA Publications (Firm), Zglinicki, Maciej, Steinhardt, Solveig
fromInsight guides
The Eternal City is an enduringly popular destination, from the Vatican's wealth of museum and charismatic new Pope to the evocative ruins of the Forum. Be inspired to visit by the new edition of Insight Rome City Guide, a comprehensive full-colour guide to the Italian capital.
In The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome, Nicola Denzey Lewis challenges the common understanding of late antique Christianity as dominated by the Cult of Saints. Popularized by historian Peter Brown, the Cult of the Saints presupposes that a 'corporeal turn' in the 4t…
"Deep in the Veneto countryside, travelers in the seventeenth and eighteenth century might easily bypass the Italian town of Monselice, overshadowed as it was by the graceful Renaissance cities of Padua and Ferrara. But fortunately for Monselice, the little hamlet had its own at…
"Deep in the Veneto countryside, travelers in the seventeenth and eighteenth century might easily bypass the Italian town of Monselice, overshadowed as it was by the graceful Renaissance cities of Padua and Ferrara. But fortunately for Monselice, the little hamlet had its own at…
"Alec Blume returns to action in this intricate and heart-pounding new novel. With the help of his associate Caterina, Blume is called to the scene of a death connected to a spate of muggings. Though the Carabinieri-military police-are trying to control the investigation, Blume,…
