"Rome and a Villa" 1952 Clark, Eleanor

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CLARK, Eleanor

[315] pp.

Doubleday & Company, Inc.

1952

8 1/4" x 5 7/8"

Drawings by Eugene Berman

In 1947 … Read more CLARK, Eleanor

[315] pp.

Doubleday & Company, Inc.

1952

8 1/4" x 5 7/8"

Drawings by Eugene Berman

In 1947 a young American woman named Eleanor Clark went to Rome on a Guggenheim fellowship to write a novel. But instead of a novel, Clark created a series of sketches of Roman life written mostly between 1948 and 1951. Wandering the streets of this legendary city, Eleanor fell under Rome's spell—its pace of life, the wry outlook of its men and women, its magnificent history and breathtaking contribution to world culture. Rome is life itself—a sensuous, hectic, chaotic, and utterly fascinating blend of the comic and the tragic. Clark highlights Roman art and architecture, including Hadrian's Villa—an enormous, unfinished palace—as a prism to view the city and its history, and offers a lovely portrait of the Cimitero acattolico—long known as the Protestant cemetery—where Keats, Shelley, and other foreign notables rest. See less