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TheHillsofRome Romeis‘thecityofsevenhills’.Thisbookexaminestheneedforthe ‘seven hills’ cliche´, its origins, development, impact and borrowing. It explores how the cliche´ relates to Rome’s real terrain and how it isfundamentaltothewayinwhichwedefinethis.Itschronological remit is capacious: Varro, Virgil and Claudian at one end, and on, throughtheworkofRenaissanceantiquarians,toembracefrescoesand nineteenth-century engravings. These artists and authors celebrated thehills,andtheviewsfromthesehills,inanattempttocaptureRome holistically.Bystudyingtheirefforts,thisbookconfrontstheproblems of encapsulating Rome and ‘citiness’ more broadly and indeed the artificialityofanyrepresentation,whetherapainting,poemormap. Inthissense,itisnotahistoryofthecityatanyonemomentintime, butahistoryofhowthecityhasbeen,andhastobe,perceived. caroline vout isSeniorLecturerinClassicsattheUniversityof Cambridge, and Fellow of Christ’s College and the Society of Anti- quaries.Sheisahistorianandarthistorianwhopublishesonawide rangeoftopicsrelatedtoGreekandRomanartanditsreception,Latin LiteratureandRomanhistory,andistheauthorofPowerandEroticism inImperialRome(Cambridge,2007).In2008shewasawardedaPhilip Leverhulme Prize for her work on Art History, and in 2010 was the HughLastFellowattheBritishSchoolatRome. The Hills of Rome Signature of an Eternal City caroline vout cambridgeuniversitypress Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107025974 (cid:2)c CarolineVout2012 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2012 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Vout,Caroline. ThehillsofRome:signatureofaneternalcity/CarolineVout. pages. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-107-02597-4(hardback) 1.Rome(Italy)–Descriptionandtravel. 2.Rome–History. I.Title. DG63.V68 2012 937(cid:3).63–dc23 2012012765 ISBN978-1-107-02597-4Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. ItwassurnamedSepticollisfromitssevenhills. Hazlitt1851(1995:296) Contents Listoffigures [pageix] Acknowledgements [xvi] 1 Introduction:thejourneytoRome [1] Themap [1] Theitinerary [11] Thedestination [15] 2 Thelieoftheland [18] ThesevenhillsofRome,RepublicandEmpire [21] AfterthehighRomanfashion [25] TheRenaissanceofthesevenhills [31] Nineteenth-andtwentieth-centuryencounters [47] 3 Sevenisthemagicnumber [57] Aninventionoftradition [59] Thepotencyandpossibilityofthenumberseven [61] Varro’scontributiontothestory [67] Beforethemountainsweresettled [75] 4 Rome,lacitta`eterna [81] ThesevenhillsandtheambitionsofEmpire [83] DizzyheightsundertheFlavians [95] TheriseandfallofRomeinlateantiquity [103] Postscript [117] 5 Paintingbynumbers [121] Thelimitsofrepresentation [121] ThesevenhillsofRenaissanceartistsandpatrons [133] Nineteenth-centurywaysofseeing [165] 6 Ontopoftheworld [188] Villasandgardens [191] Inthethickofit [195] GettingthemeasureofthewholeofRome [199] FramingaviewfromtheCapitolineorPalatine [207] Theimperialgaze [214] Divineomniscience [220] vii viii Contents 7 Signingoff [227] Thehistoryofanidea [227] Geographyashistory [235] References [240] Indexofprincipalpassagesdiscussed [270] Generalindex [274] Thecolourplateswilllbefoundbetweenpages174and175
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