How I Loved the Broken Things of Rome

Goethe Reading in Rome, Tischbein SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

LITERARY
  • Anne Carson, The Fall of Rome: A Traveler's Guide
  • Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
  • Robert Graves, I, Claudius
  • Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
  • Germaine de Staël, Corinne, or Italy
  • Gore Vidal, Julian
  • Maguerite Yourcenar, Memories of Hadrian
  • Maguerite Yourcenar, A Coin in Nine Hands

    MEMOIRS & ESSAYS
  • Francis Bacon, Of Travel
  • Elizabeth Bowen, A Time in Rome
  • Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of my Life
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Italian Journey
  • Henry James, Italian Hours
  • D. H. Laurence, Etruscan Places
  • Montaigne, Travel Journal

    CLASSICAL
  • Horace, Odes & Epodes
  • Livy, The Early History of Rome
  • Lucretius, The Nature of Things
  • Martial, Epigrams
  • Ovid, The Metamorphoses
  • Ovid, Tristia & Ex Ponto
  • Vergil, The Aeneid
  • Vergil, The Georgics
  • Vitruvius, On Architecture

    HISTORICAL
  • Peter Galessi, In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting
  • Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Michael Grant, various
  • AndrewHadfield, ed. Amazons, Savages & Machiavels: Travel & Colonial Writing
  • Raymond Keaveney, Views of Rome, Thomas Ashby Collection, Vatican Library
  • Rodolfo Lanciani, Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries
  • Richard Pare, Photography & Architecture: 1839 - 1939
  • Rudolf Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from 1300 to 1850

    MISC.
  • Luigi Barzini, The Italians
  • Brian Dolan, Ladies of the Grand Tour
  • Barbara Hodgson, No Place for a Lady
  • Rose Marie San Juan, Rome: A City Out of Print

    GUIDE BOOKS
  • Oxford Archaeological Guide
  • Electa Guides (Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma)
    Romus Aurea
    Palazzo Massimo alle Terme
    Palazzo Altemps
    The Capitoline Mesums
    Hadrian's Villa
    Pompeii
    J. R. carpenter