by Vernon Lee · Alpha Edition · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789361479915
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«The Spirit of Rome» is the travel book by Vernon Lee, published by Alpha Edition in paperback (68 pages, in English).
Vernon Lee, raised in Rome during her youth, returns to the city as an adult and records her impressions over a decade. Among villas, streets, the Vatican and the Pantheon, she reflects on the history, art and beauty of the capital, and on the traces of the past and of those who are no longer there.
The work was originally published in 1906; this Alpha Edition, released in 2024, has been reformatted and reset with clear text, without scanned copies.
For those interested in the history of Rome, travel literature and early 20th-century British memoiristic prose.
Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the French-born British writer Violet Paget. She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music and travel.
