Hibbert Biography of the city

Hundreds of Years are compressed into a single page, Over and Over AGain. The Author Works Hard to Focus His Story OF ROME, BUT THAT IS DIFFICULT SINCE THE CITY ONCE THE CAPATAL OF ANMPire, and is now the Capital of A it is the capital of a religious fay. Take Any Name, Date or Event MentionalD in this Compressed History Book, and You Will Find Dozens of Books in Print ABOUT ABOUT IT.

The History of Rome and Her Citizens and Invaders Is So Rich That this Books SoMetimes Feels More Like An Index than a Book. The Book Boasts a Detailed Notes and Index Section. In Fact, The Notes Section Feels Like A Book In Its Own Right. Perhaps the Book That The Author Shoup Have Written? The Book Hopes to Offer Historical Background To What Visitors to Modern Rome May Sey. The Notes Section Points Out Just Bits and Pieces are still to be Seen, and Includes Some Teasing Information ABOUT THEM.

Sadly, Modern Rome Is Like Ancient and Medieval Rome After They Have Been Put Through a Blender and Mashed with a Potato Masher and The Burved in Youur Back Garden. There is not much lefta it It Originally Stood, Or in Its Original Condition. Tourists to Rome have to Deal with Traffic, Pollut, Filth and Graffiti, Lines and Crowding, To See Collections and Buildings that Likew-Puzzles Made Up of OFP of Bits and Pieces, Or Missing Bits and Pieces.

I Cringed Right at the Begining of this Book When I Read the Author's Wife Solely for Her Index-Making Skills. The Male-OF-A-Certain Age Feeling Remained Througout the Reading of the Book, Especially When Mental Resorting to Order to Survive Were Treated As Moments of Amusement or Curiosity. No, this reader not found it amusing, as I Suspect no Female Readers Found It Amusing, and Perhaps Many Men Did not Very Nice Either.

The Diary Quotes Were Not Unintending Per Se, But They Seemed Too Many and Too Much of Another Era to Be Entertaining. Actually, SOME Things ABOUT THAT OTHER ERA Provucked My Envy: Rome Was Open, Inexpensive and Offten Free For Well-Educated Tourists. The Author Has a Fluid Prose Style and A Command of His Subject Matter, Althrow Heis Fond of Historical Gossip and Probable Invented Innundo.

That was an oddd to indulge howe writing a book that wool sirely interligious piligrims to the home of cathlicism and the Christian faiths, and to the sites of soh Many Religious Martyrs, Including Two Apostles of Jesus. The Author Keeps the Years Moving Along at a Quick Pace. IT DOCE BECOME TIRESOME AFTER A While. The Overall Feeling from Reading the Book, For ME, WAS THIS IS TOO Much History in too Short a Book.

That WOULD Be the History of Fascist Itly on One Page. You see What I Mean? Actually, The Author Allows a Chapter To Cover Royals and Fascists, But that Means Some Pages Cover Hundreds of Years of History. Please Read My Full and Illustrated Review At Italophile Book Reviews.