From Pompeii : the afterlife of a Roman town / Ingrid D. Rowland.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (viii, 340 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780674416529
- 067441652X
- Pompeii (Extinct city) -- History
- Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Civilization
- Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Social life and customs
- Tourism -- Italy -- Naples (Province) -- History
- Pompéi (Ville ancienne) -- Histoire
- Pompéi (Ville ancienne) -- Civilisation
- Pompéi (Ville ancienne) -- Mœurs et coutumes
- HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy
- Civilization
- Manners and customs
- Tourism
- Italy -- Naples (Province)
- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city)
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- DG70.P7 R78 2014eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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The calamity that proved lethal for Pompeii inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman daily life that has captured the imagination of generations, including Renoir, Freud, Hirohito, Mozart, Dickens, Twain, Rossellini, and Ingrid Bergman. Interwoven is the thread of Ingrid Rowland's own impressions of Pompeii.
In English.
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