{"product_id":"9781841596228","title":"Rome Stories by Jonathan Keates","description":"During its three-thousand-year   history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation and the   spiritual core of a great world religion. For writers from antiquity to the   present, however, the place holds an alternative significance as a realm of   fantasy, aspiration and desire. Captivating and lethal at one and the same   moment, its fatal gift of beauty both transfigures and betrays those in   thrall to it. Rome Stories explores   the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, a   Renaissance sculptor, 18th-century tourists, American, British and French   novelists and the authors of modern Rome, each testing and unravelling the   city's ageless paradoxes. Gibbon   admires the Last of the Tribunes, Goethe decodes the mysteries of the   Carnival and Stendhal's subversive aristocrats mingle revolution with a   little cross-dressing amid their gilt mirrors and frescoed ceilings From Plutarch to Pasolini, from Hawthorne   to Wharton, the city of Caesars and popes, of dreamers, chancers and hustlers   confronts the questing imagination with its eternally unflinching gaze.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308247724405,"sku":"9781841596228","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781841596228.jpg?v=1762806881","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781841596228","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}