My Roman history
"In this exquisite and profound memoir, a medieval historian traces her lifelong obsession with Rome and the encounters with the city's past and present that became fulcrum points in her life From the time she first felt called to its gates as a high school student fascinated by Dante and Italian th...
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New York :
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Romana
- Rome at a gallop
- Dante led me here
- A family story
- Ancient history
- All hungerings
- Searching for Dante
- Dollar by dollar, word by word
- Waiting to be realigned
- Arrival
- American Beatrice
- Keys to a walled city
- A sparrow flies into a hall
- Ithaca
- Living Latin
- Reversing course
- The past is a great din
- Winter will melt away
- Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza
- Via della Scala
- The Holy Roman Alpine Club
- Vatican Library
- Via Appia
- If only I could live in their times
- Americana
- Checklist
- Teaching Rome
- No map, no Virgil
- New words
- Fabulation
- The Pied Piper
- Counting
- Your story
- Into the crevasse
- Sacred grove
- Beatrice
- Ascent.
