Author Description

1. A bend in the river -- 2. A storybook beginning -- 3. Ideological crossfire -- 4. Big men on the Campus -- 5. Res publica restitute -- 6. Memorials in motion: spectacle in the city -- 7. The concrete style -- 8. Remaking Rome's public core I -- 9. Remaking Rome's public core II -- 10. Continuity and crisis -- 11. Rus in urbe: a garden city -- 12. Administration, infrastructure, and disposal of the dead -- 13. Mapping, zoning, and sequestration -- 14. Tetrarchic and Constantinian Rome -- 15. Trophies and tituli: Christian infrastructure before Constantine -- 16. Walls make Christians: from fourth to fifth century -- 17. A tale of two Romes -- 18. The Rome of Goths and Byzantines -- 19. Christian foundations -- 20. From Domus Laterani to Romanum palatium -- 21. The Leonine City: St Peter's and the Borgo -- 22. Via Papalis, the Christian decumanus -- 23. The Urban theaters of imperium and SPQR -- 24. Housing daily life -- 25. Chaos in the fortified city -- 26. The Tiber River -- 27. Humanist Rome, absolutist Rome (1420-1527) -- 28. Planning Counter-Reformation Rome -- 29. Processions and populations -- 30. Magnificent palaces and rhetorical churches -- 31. Neoclassical Rome -- 32. Picturing Rome -- 33. Revolution and Risorgimento -- 34. Italian nationalism and romanit... -- 35. A city turned inside out