My Italian NotebookAllen & Unwin, 2002 - 341 pages When Gough Whitlam was a small boy, his mother and father would read him the myths and legends of Ancient Rome as bedtime stories. These stories sparked in him a curiosity about Italy - its history, culture and its contribution to the rest of the world - which would endure for the rest of his life. |
Contents
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Religion | 50 |
Opera | 90 |
Arts and Architecture | 112 |
Literature | 150 |
Monarchs | 174 |
Italian Heritage Sites | 204 |
Morosinis Legacy | 247 |
The Longest Cathedrals | 260 |
Italian Names of Foreign or Historic Places | 267 |
English Words from and in Italian | 277 |
Endnotes | 281 |
Corrigenda | 300 |
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Page 165 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
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