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Take a Roman holiday with some of the worlds greatest writers

Explore the Palatine with Elizabeth Bowen. Visit the temple of the Vestal Virgins with Georgina Masson. Analyze Michelangelos Moses with Sigmund Freud. Stroll through ancient streets with Goethe and with Henry James. Share Alice Steinbachs midnight epiphany on a shabby hotel balcony. Learn the art of love from Ovid. Visit villas and gardens with Edith Wharton. Enjoy Romes myriad moods and pleasures with Robert Browning, Eleanor Clark, Susan Vreeland, and many others.
An irresistible collection of writing about one of the worlds most beloved destinations, The Smiles of Rome spans the centuries from ancient times to the present day. Each essay resonates with the richness and turmoil of the past and overflows with a great wealth of fascinating facts and intriguing tidbits for todays avid readers and travelers.
Rome, writes Susan Cahill, has the power to blow your mind and heart. This delicious, many-layered collection honoring the city that is the heart and soul of European civilization has the same power to thrill.

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BY SUSAN CAHILL NONFICTION For the Love of Ireland A Literary Companion - photo 1
BY SUSAN CAHILL

NONFICTION

For the Love of Ireland:
A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers

Desiring Italy:
Women Writers Celebrate the Passions
of a Country and Culture

A Literary Guide to Ireland
WITH THOMAS CAHILL

FICTION

Earth Angels

ANTHOLOGIES

Women Write:
A Mosaic of Womens Voices in Fiction, Poetry,
Memoir, and Essay

QPB Anthology of Womens Writing
From the 14th Century to the Present

Wise Women:
2,000 Years of Spiritual Writing by Women

Women and Fiction:
Short Stories by and about Women

The Urban Reader
WITH MICHELE F. COOPER

A Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Original Copyright 2005 by Susan Cahill All - photo 2

A Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Original

Copyright 2005 by Susan Cahill

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Ballantine and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Owing to limitations of space, permission acknowledgments can be found on , which constitutes an extension of this copyright page.

eISBN: 978-0-307-77836-9

Ballantine Books website address: www.ballantinebooks.com

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CONTENTS
From The Love-ArtistPicture 4 T HEATER OF M ARCELLUS
O STIA A NTICA
From Memoirs of HadrianPicture 5 T HE P ANTHEON
H ADRIAN S T OMB Picture 6 H ADRIANS V ILLA
From In RuinsPicture 7 W HO K ILLED D AISY M ILLER ?
T HE C OLOSSEUM
From The First Letter of PeterPicture 8 T RASTEVERE
S ANTA P UDENZIANA Picture 9 S T. P ETER S : T HE S CAVI
T HE J ANICULUM H ILL
From The Letter of Paul to the Church in RomePicture 10 S T. P RISCA
S T. P AUL Picture 11 O UTSIDE THE W ALLS Picture 12 T RE F ONTANE
From The Geometry of LovePicture 13 S T. A GNES O UTSIDE THE W ALLS
C ONSTANTIAS M AUSOLEUM Picture 14 E ARLY C HRISTIAN C HURCHES
Poems Picture 15 T HE S ISTINE C HAPEL Picture 16 S T. P ETERS: T HE P IET
The D OME Picture 17 P ALAZZO F ARNESE
Poems Picture 18 P ALAZZO C OLONNA : G ALLERIA
S AN S ILVESTRO ON T HE Q UIRINAL H ILL
From The Passion of ArtemisiaPicture 19 S T. M ARIA DEL P OPOLO
P ALAZZO S PADA Picture 20 C AMPO DE F IORI
T RINIT DEI M ONTI
ROME OF THE GRAND TOUR (ISTS)
Eighteenth Century to the Present
From Italian JourneyPicture 21 S T. P ETERS : T HE L ANTERN
T HE F ARNESINA Picture 22 T HE B OTANICAL G ARDENS
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxeds Church
ST. PRASSEDE
From The Marble FaunPicture 23 T HE C APITOLINE H ILL
T HE M ONKEY T OWER Picture 24 C HURCH OF THE C APUCHINS
T HE C ATACOMBS
From Italian HoursPicture 25 T HE P INCIAN H ILL
T HE E SQUILINE H ILL Picture 26 T HE C AMPAGNA Picture 27 T HE C ORSO
From Italian Villas and Their GardensPicture 28 V ILLA D E STE , T IVOLI
T HE B ORGHESE G ARDENS Picture 29 T HE V ILLA B ORGHESE
From A Voyage to PaganyPicture 30 P IAZZA DELL E SEDRA
T HE B ATHS OF D IOCLETIAN Picture 31 P ALAZZO A LTEMPS O CTAGONAL H ALL
Twin Beds in Rome Picture 32 P IAZZA V ENEZIA Picture 33 T HE C APITOLINE H ILL
S T. M ARIA IN A RACOELI Picture 34 V IA N AZIONALE
From Rome and a VillaPicture 35 B ESIDE THE P YRAMID
T HE P ROTESTANT C EMETERY Picture 36 K EATSS H OUSE
My Rome Picture 37 V IA DEI C ORONARI Picture 38 P ALAZZO T AVERNA
L AKE N EMI
From Without ReservationsPicture 39
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