Dimensions
141 x 192 x 23mm
In this complex love affair with the city that was for many years his home, Carlo Levi leads the reader through the streets of Rome, a city at once fleeting and eternal, noble and plebian, a city of dreams. He introduces readers to the street traders, housewives and students of the modern city as they go about their lives against a backdrop created by their illustrious Roman predecessors. We see the citizens at work and play: at the festivities of Ferragosto (main August holiday to celebrate the Assumption of our Lady), San Giovanni and Befana (Epiphany) in Piazza Navona, at the little theatre of Pulcinella al Pincio, arguing in the streets and on the first student marches of the 1960s. We hear the sounds of the city, smell its odours and sympathise with the aspirations of its people. It is a book that captures the beauty of this city in a golden era of its recent history.
