Whispering City: Modern Rome and Its Histories

8vo. 240 x 165 mm.,  [9 1/2 x 6  1/2 inches]. xviii+358pp., including index.  Thirteen maps at chapter-openings; 36 reproductions of engravings and photos throughout.  Publisher's tan paper over boards with gold stamping on spine; unclipped photographic jacket. Book is Fine: seemingly unread. Jacket is Fine: as new.

First Edition. Australian scholar Richard James Boon Bosworth (1943-   ) is a leading authority on Fascist Italy, its monuments and discontents. He offers a psychologizing re-interpretation of major modern Roman descriptions and histories, prompted by Freud’s declaration that modern Rome must be understood as “not a human dwelling place but a mental entity.”