Rome Through the Mist: Walks Among the Fountains of the Eternal City

by Joe Gartman, Patricia Gartman (Illustrator)

Overview

Join Joe Gartman, culture columnist for Italia! Magazine, on a journey among 80 of Rome's celebrated fountains, and find a more intimate way of experiencing the Eternal City. On foot with book in hand, or simply in imagination, each chapter takes readers on a vivid walk, enhanced with colorful, revealing photographs of Roman life. Every fountain in Rome tells a story and every story is about Rome: her history, her legends, and her extraordinary people—poets and popes, artists and models, architects and emperors, saints and sinners. Every street, piazza, wall and garden that contains a fountain has a past worth knowing.

Discover the paths in this book, with 15 different turn-by-turn walking tours, 17 maps, and 181 full-color photos. Journey from Trevi's torrents to the Naiad's naughty nymphs and from the quiet basins in Piazza San Simeone to Bernini's mighty Four Rivers in Piazza Navona; or perhaps find a secret fountain where tourists rarely go, and listen to the voices of the waters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476689241
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date:	03/02/2023
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 10.00(h) x 2.40(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

For nine years, as Italia! Magazine’s “resident historian and storyteller”, Joe Gartman has written a column called “Fast Culture” as well as many articles on travel, art, and history. His work also appears in the Italia! Guides series, German Life Magazine, and online at italytravelandlife.com. A librarian and teacher by profession, Patricia Gartman found a new vocation for travel photography when she began to publish photos to illustrate Joe’s magazine articles. Hundreds of her pictures have appeared in Italia! Magazine, German Life Magazine and Italia! Guides.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
 1. Triton and Trevi and a Fountain Quartet: Piazza Barberini Area
 2. Sensuous to Sacred: Piazza Repubblica Area
 3. Queen Christina’s Cannonball to Audrey Hepburn’s Sleepover: Piazza di Spagna Area
 4. Nero’s Bones, Pharaohs, and Roman Gods: Piazza del Popolo Area
 5. Pax Romana to the Porter’s Water Barrel: via Ripetta and via del Corso Area
 6. The Altar of the Fatherland to the Altar of Heaven: Piazza Venezia Area
 7. Caput Mundi: Capitoline Area
 8. Walls, Gates, Fountains, and Memories: Roman Ghetto Area
 9. Tosca’s Church to Agrippa’s Temple: Pantheon Area
10. One Ballerina, Two Sea Gods, and Four Rivers: Piazza Navona Area
11. Veggie Soup and Wine with the Farnese: Campo de’ Fiori Area
12. Across the River and into the Fountains: Trastevere
13. Mother Church’s Twins and New Water for Old Rome: Vatican Area
14. A Walk in the Park: Villa Borghese Area
15. Scattered Treasures: Here and There
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index