Rome and a Villa

Name: Rome and a Villa
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ISBN: 9780060974893

ISBN-10: 0060974893

ISBN-13: 9780060974893

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Eleanor Clark

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In 1947 a young american woman named Eleanor Clark went to Rome on a Guggenheim fellowship to write a novel. But Rome had its way with her, the novel was abandoned, and what followed was not a novel but a series of sketches of Roman life, most written between 1948 and 1951. This new edition of her now classic book includes an evocative foreword by the eminent translator William Weaver, who was a close friend of the author's and often wandered the city with her during the years she was working on Rome and a Villa.Once in Rome, the foreign writer or artist, over the course of weeks, months, or years, begins to lose ambition, to lose a sense of urgency, to lose even a sense of self. What once…

Book details

List price: $12.00
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/9/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Foreword



Preface to the 1992 Edition


Return to Rome: Preface to the 1974 Edition


The Campidoglio


Fountains


Salvator Giuliano: The Education of a Bandit


Roman Journal I


Hadrian's Villa


Midcentury Jubilee


Roman Journal II


Beside the Pyramid


G. G. Belli: Roman Poet


Index