From Pompeii : the afterlife of a Roman town /

Rowland, Ingrid D.

From Pompeii : the afterlife of a Roman town / Ingrid D. Rowland. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : Naples, 1962 -- Pompeii, May 2013 -- The blood of San Gennaro and the eruption of Vesuvius, 1631 -- Before Pompeii : Athanasius Kircher and Lukas Holste, 1637-1638 -- Mr. Freeman goes to Herculaneum -- The rediscovery of Pompeii, 1748-1770 -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1770 -- Further excavations, 1771-1832 -- Karl (Kyrill) Bryullov, 1828 -- Railway tourism -- Charles Dickens, 1845, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), 1867 -- Giuseppe Fiorelli, "the pope" of Pompeii -- Bartolo Longo, 1872 -- The social role of tourist cameos -- Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1881 -- The legacy of August Mau -- Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan, 1921 -- Don Amedeo Maiuri, 1937-1961 -- Roberto Rossellini, 1953 -- Autobus gran turismo -- Coda : Atomic Pizza.



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Tourism--History.--Italy--Naples (Province)


Electronic Books.

DG70 / .F766 2014