The Spirit of Rome
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For Vernon Lee, a return to Rome brings familiar details into strange new focus. These diary leaves record the impressions of an author who grew up in the city and later rediscovered its hold on thought and feeling. An ancient stone coffin built into a medieval tomb, reeds along the Campagna and the colour and sound of a chapel ceremony become occasions for close observation. Memory gives the smallest architectural feature a weight of its own.
The entries move between art, landscape and the unsettled texture of city life. In Rione Monti, excavations and rebuilding briefly reveal old walls and convent gardens above new streets. A visit to the catacombs gives way to renewed pleasure in clouds, green corn and blossoms. Readers interested in personal travel writing can follow Lee's changing responses to Rome, where admiration, irritation and curiosity often share the same page.
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- Author
- Vernon Lee
- Pages
- 77
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Travel Memoir
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