Rome Of Today - Softcover

Edmond About

Softcover

ISBN 10: 037172631X ISBN 13: 9780371726310

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Rome Of Today by Edmond About is a panoramic travelogue and sociocultural portrait written during the mid-19th century. The text follows a journey from Paris to Marseilles, across the Mediterranean, and into Rome, weaving vivid cityscapes with candid observations of Rome’s social classes, neighborhoods, and institutions on the eve of Italian unification. About surveys Marseille’s urban transformation and then turns his keen eye to the Papal States, examining the plebeians, the Ghetto, the Trastevere, the Roman nobility, the army, and the government. He blends literary travel writing with sharp social critique, detailing architecture, industry, labor, and leisure, while praising commercial energy and lamenting bureaucratic inertia and cultural stagnation. The work portrays a city in flux: from the rural Campagna to burgeoning urban centers, from papal sovereignty toward a nascent Italian nation, and from inherited privilege toward the rising influence of a young middle class. It remains a colorful, often provocative, yet perceptive record of Rome’s people and customs in a pivotal era of change.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 037172631X
• ISBN 13: 9780371726310
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270