BOOKS AND GUIDES ABOUT ROME

EAT, PRAY, LOVE

By Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert story reaches much beyond her travel experience, it suggests readers how one could face moments of desperation, and mostly it gives hope. I read the book "The Secret" and watched the movie and the whole idea of being part of the Universe as human beings and be able to attract what we hope for, is something that has impressed me. I found the same idea in Liz's book, when she is in the car driving through Kansas with her friend Iva. That is a way to see us, humans, as a whole with the Universe. And I do like that very much.

While reading I often had turned the book around and look at Liz's picture, to look in her eyes and say thank you. Thank you for the many touching moments, as well as for her cleaver observations, and for the laughters.

Having been a tour guide I know most of the places that Liz writes about in her book. Of course the "San Crispino" gelato shop, but what has struck me the most was her preference for the fountain of the Satiri family in the Borghese Gardens which is also one my top favorites fountains in Rome. An inscription on the base of the fountain says: "The murmur of the water is a hymn to life", just like Liz's book!

So, I think we will take some of our clients, especially those who had read the book, to see the places that Liz has mentioned in her book "Eat, Pray, Love". I think it will be very special for all of those people traveling to Rome who also have read the book to see these sites in person.

I would recommend this book to anyone!

Georgina Masson - The Companion Guide to Rome
This is definitely one of the best guide book to Rome! However, it is difficult to find (a new edition should be printed in the near future). It's a Fontana - Collins publication, first published in 1965 by Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. (GB).

'To meet the need for a guide book that is a guide in the Baedeker sense (or nearly so) and also a book by a person of enthusiastic and individual views, Collin's Companion Guides have appeared miraculously on the scene'
Angus Wilson, Observer

'The best travel-guide formula in britain since the war - a formula combining informative detail a la Baedeker with seductive readability'
Times Educational Supplement

also in Fontana:
LONDON, David Piper 'It has strong claims to be among the best guide-books ever written.'
Sunday Telegraph

VENICE, Hugh Honour 'The best guide-book I have ever encoutered.' Angus Wilson, Observer

Georgina Masson The Companion Guide to Rome

When in Rome: A Journal of Life in Vatican City
By Robert J. Hutchinson

Lighthearted and altogether fascinating, When in Rome is a delightful backstairs tour of one of the world's most mysterious and eccentric cities. Humorous, irreverent, but ultimately respectful, When in Rome does for the Vatican what A Year in Provence did for the French countryside, in an unforgettable and unprecedented eyewitness account of one of the most fascinating places on Earth.

"When in Rome" is in the best sende of the word a fun book. I haven't enjoyed this kind of diverting experience since our own palmy days in the city during the sixties and seventies. I thoroughly recommend it for a summer afternoon or in winter by firelight."
Morris West
Author of The Shoes of the Fisherman

"When in Rome" is a delightful romp through some of the more obscure byways of the Eternal City. A guide in the manner of Mark Twain -remember The Innocent Abroad?-he is both funny and informative. Often mischievous, sometimes irriverent, always entertaining, a thoroughly good read."
Peter de Rosa
author of Pope Patrick and Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy.

"Hutchinson treats readers to a candid and often hilarious examination of the secret machinations of the Vatican."
The San Francisco Examiner

"Anyone interested in Rome, in the Vatican, or in just having a good time in Italy will surely love When in Rome."
Inside the Vatican magazine

R.J.Hutchinson When in Rome

Signs and Symbols in Christian Art
George Ferguson for Oxford University Press - $11,95US

Divided into fourteen chapters, text and illustrations reveal the symbolism inherent in representations of religious personages, the Earth and Sky, animals, birds, insects, and flowers. In addition to a discussion of objects treated symbolically in Christian art, George Ferguson explores the Old Testament characters and events and their symbolic representation in art.

"The publication of this book is an important event. There is no comparable guide in English to the profundly beautiful symbolism of Christian art."
John Walker, Director Emeritus of the National Gallery of Art,, Washington D.C.

"An extraordinary beautiful and useful book... for clergymen, both Protestant and Catholic, who are interested in liturgies and symbolism, for architects and artists and for all devotees of art, this is an unusually valuable volume."
Kirkus Reviews

"Whether as a reference work or as an invitation to fashinating browsing, the book is a treasure."
Journal of Bible and Religion

G.Ferguson

Signs & Symbols in Christian Art

Rome
Oxford Archaeological Guide
written by: Amanda Claridge
Oxford University Press - ISBN 019288003-9
The Travel guide to over 150 sites with maps, plans, and photographs

Rome - Oxford Archaeological Guides

As the Romans did
(Second edition)
A sourcebook in Roman Social History
written by: Jo-Ann Shelton
Oxford University Press, 1998 - ISBN 0-19-508974-X

"The most lucid account of daily activity thus far constructed... A wonderful sourcebook of everyday life... will become a short classic of the past."
Ronald T. Marchese, University of Minnesota

"A wonderful book! The best introduction to the Romans that I have seen. The Romans speak to the students in their own voices, but the clear organization, excellent introductions and cross-referencing make the book accessible and informative."
Kathryn Argetsinger, University of Rochester

As the

Romans Did

Jo-Ann Shelton

Atlas of

Ancient Rome

Chris Scarre

A twenty-first century woman finds herself stranded in first century Rome and sold to a wealthy family as a house slave. This situation provides her with an intimate, Upstairs / Downstairs look at household life in the ancient world. She seeks freedom and love through storytelling; her stories win her love and respect from her Roman master - and hatred from jealous rivals.

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