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Paperback. Condizione: Good. 541 pages. Rome is a city with over 2,500 years of history, with buildings and art treasure s representative of much of that time; as Augustus Hare wrote, the fascination l ies in the discovery of `ancient cloister and sculptured fountain, of mouldering fresco and medieval tomb -of mosaic-crowned gateway and palm-shadowed garden -a nd the gradually acquired knowledge of the wondrous story which clings around ea ch of these ancient things'. Georgina Masson's book provides the perfect compani on to this voyage of discovery, including both the great sights - the Colosseum, the Forum, the Vatican Palace and many more -and the smaller corners of Rome's squares and streets; she guides the visitor equally skilfully though the maze of the Roman past. And she evokes the reactions of earlier travellers to Rome, who , like the author of the twelfth century pilgrims' guide to the marvels of the c ity, have been equally entranced by the city's classical monuments and its Chris tian heritage. Her book has long been recognised as a classic, and is now presen ted in a fully revised and updated edition.…