The Secrets of Rome: Love and Death in the Eternal City

Title Page......Page 2 Copyright......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Epigraph......Page 6 Editor’s Note......Page 7 Preamble in Two Scenes......Page 8 I. Between Space and Time......Page 18 II. My Native Land, I Do the Walls Behold......Page 48 III. Twenty-three Thrusts of the Dagger......Page 70 IV. The Other Michelangelo......Page 100 V. A House all of Gold......Page 129 VI. The Adventure of Moses......Page 158 VII. Factory of Dreams......Page 183 VIII. Towers of Fear......Page 208 IX. “Ist am 24.3.1944 Gestorben”......Page 236 X. The Most Beautiful Lady of Rome......Page 258 XI. The Rise of the Bourgeoisie......Page 283 XII. “Fratelli D’italia”......Page 304 XIII. Murder on Via Puccini......Page 325 XIV. Life Beyond the Walls......Page 350 XV. The Twentieth Anniversary that Never Was......Page 374 Acknowledgments......Page 393 "Augias moves perceptively through twenty-seven centuries of Roman life, shedding new light on a cast of famous, and infamous, historical figures and uncovering secrets and conspiracies that have shaped the city without our ever knowing it. From Rome's origins as Romulus's stomping ground to the dark atmosphere of the Middle Ages; from Caesar's unscrupulousness to Caravaggio's lurid genius; from the notorious Lucrezia Borgia to the seductive Anna Fallarino, the marchioness at the center of one of Rome's most heinous crimes of the post-war period, Augias creates a sweeping account of the passions that have shaped this complex city: at once both a metropolis and a village, where all human sentiment-bravery and cowardice, industriousness and sloth, enterprise and laxity-find their interpreters and stage"--Publisher's description