Fleeting Rome
Book description
Only a renaissance man could have described this glorious city in its heyday. And only Carlo Levi, writer, painter, politician and one of the last centurya s most celebrated talents, could depict Rome at the height of its optimism and vitality after World War II. In Fleeting Rome, the era…
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One of my favorite Italian figures of the twentieth century is the writer, painter, and anti-fascist Carlo Levi.
This collection of his essays, evoking the complexities of Rome and its people, sums up what it means to come to terms with the Eternal City:
“Here, everything has already existed: and existence has not vanished into memory, rather it has remained present... The virtues are not the moral and ideological values (which the passage of too long a time has gradually flattened out), but simpler and more visible values: health, physical strength, knowing how to eat and drink, knowing how to…
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