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The Secrets of Rome

Love and Death in the Eternal City

by Corrado Augias
A. Lawrence Jenkens
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Take a tour through 27 centuries of Roman history as a celebrated Italian writer reveals the historical figures, secrets, and conspiracies that shaped the city.
From Italy’s popular author Corrado Augias comes the most intriguing exploration of Rome ever to be published. In the mold of his earlier histories of Paris, New York, and London, Augias moves perceptively through 27 centuries of Roman life, shedding new light on a cast of famous, and infamous, historical figures and uncovering secrets and conspiracies that have shaped the city without our ever knowing it.
From Rome’s origins as Romulus’s stomping ground to the dark atmosphere of the Middle Ages; from Caesar’s unscrupulousness to Caravaggio’s lurid genius; from the notorious Lucrezia Borgia to the seductive Anna Fallarino, the marchioness at the center of one of Rome’s most heinous crimes of the post-war period, Augias creates a sweeping account of the passions that have shaped this complex city: at once both a metropolis and a village, where all human sentiment—bravery and cowardice, industriousness and sloth, enterprise and laxity—find their interpreters and stage.

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