Rome - Maria Teresa Guaitoli

From obscure Neolithic pastoral village to "capital of the world", the history of ancient Rome is not merely one of the most incredible adventures of mankind, but constitutes the start of an uninterrupted "bridge" between the dawn of Italic civilizations and the modern West. This journey to the origins of the present is a pictorial representation of the development of the Roman world in the light of the historical, urbanistic, architectural and artistic aspects that characterized the main periods of this extraordinary civilization, from its formative years to the crisis of the 5th century BC, following the conquest of Rome: the Italian peninsula, the Mediterranean, and the Hellenic East. A vast iconography, consisting of photographs, reconstructions and plans, accompanies the text, written by an acknowledged authority in the field of Italic archaeology which help to clarify the dynamics of the exceptional development of a world - the Roman world - in which all the principal values upon which we still base our lives were established. A vast iconography, consisting of photographs, reconstructions and plans, accompanies the text.