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Rome Is Love Spelled Backward: Enjoying Art and Architecture in the Eternal City
A celebration of the art, architecture, and timeless human passion of the Eternal City, Rome Is Love Spelled Backward explores Rome's best-known treasures, often revealing secrets overlooked in conventional guidebooks. With the ancient play on "Roma" and "Amor"--ROMAMOR--Testa invites readers to experience the world's long love affair with one of its most beautiful cities.
Book Details
- Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
- Publish Date: Apr 1st, 1998
- Pages: 303
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.05in - 5.06in - 0.76in - 0.92lb
- EAN: 9780875805764
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Europe - Italy• European - General• Europe - Italy
About the Author
Judith Testa is professor emerita at Northern Illinois University and author of Rome is Love Spelled Backward: Enjoying Art and Architecture in the Eternal City.
Praise for this book
With a text both scholarly and entertaining, Testa has produced a guide useful for the serious student and passionate sightseer. The text is characterized by both lucidity and a sincere love of the subject matter, and this makes the book a pleasure to read and also a wonderful guide for travelers to Rome.
-- "Choice"