Just Rome. Images of Italy XXI. Ippolitov A.

Arkady Ippolitov Guardian of the Italian engraving cabinet in the State Hermitage, the largest expert and a subtle connoisseur of Italian history and culture. The hero of his book Rome, an amazing city, the city of the great style. Many characters flash on the pages: dads and emperors, the greatest artists and brilliant architects, charming beauties and irresistible adventurers of a brilliant retinue of the eternal city. The laid -back ease of a talented writer, who also has huge knowledge and impeccable taste, fills the pages with love and graceful irony. Basilicians and palaces, squares and fountains, statues and paintings come to life under his pen. They also become characters of each their own story, their own fate, but the entire motley kaleidoscope of various individual stories merges into a single narrative, which can not be called a novel.