# Rome Stories - Hardcover

by **Jonathan Keates** (Editor)

**From Plutarch to Pasolini, from Henry James to Alberto Moravia, this collection of classic tales of the Eternal City draws on a wide range of brilliant writers from ancient times to the present. A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology. EVERYMAN'S POCKET CLASSICS.**

During its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation, and the spiritual core of a world religion. For writers from antiquity to the present, however, it has long served as a realm of fantasy, aspiration, and desire. Captivating and lethal at one and the same moment, its beauty both transfigures and betrays those in thrall to it. _Rome Stories_ explores the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, Renaissance sculptors, Enlightenment poets and philosophers, American, British, and French novelists, and the writers of modern Italy.

### Author Biography

**JONATHAN KEATES** is the author of several works of fiction including the short story collection _Allegro Postillion_s and the novel _The Stranger's Gallery_. He is the biographer of Handel, Purcell, and Stendhal, and is well known as a reviewer and writer on Italian culture and history. He teaches at the City of London School and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

**Number of Pages:** 416

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 7.3 x 4.9 IN

**Publication Date:** March 07, 2017

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