From Pompeii : the afterlife of a Roman town / Ingrid D. Rowland.
"When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the force of the explosion blew the top right off the mountain, burying nearby Pompeii in a shower of volcanic ash. Ironically, the calamity that proved so lethal for Pompeii's inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman daily lif...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2014.
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Physical Description: | viii, 340 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction : Naples, 1962
- Pompeii, May 2013
- The blood of San Gennaro and the eruption of Vesuvius, 1631
- Before Pompeii : Athanasius Kircher and Lukas Holste, 1637-1638
- Mr. Freeman goes to Herculaneum
- The rediscovery of Pompeii, 1748-1770
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1770
- Further excavations, 1771-1832
- Karl (Kyrill) Bryullov, 1828
- Railway tourism
- Charles Dickens, 1845, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), 1867
- Giuseppe Fiorelli, "the pope" of Pompeii
- Bartolo Longo, 1872
- The social role of tourist cameos
- Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1881
- The legacy of August Mau
- Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan, 1921
- Don Amedeo Maiuri, 1937-1961
- Roberto Rossellini, 1953
- Autobus gran turismo
- Coda : Atomic Pizza.