With this book, Alberto Angela drags with him on an exciting journey in ancient Rome for a day and makes us Cicero, bringing the hand to the discovery of traditional customs and secrets of Imperial Rome. The adventure takes it twenty four hours. Begins at dawn and ends at midnight on any day of 115 AD in Rome at the height of his power and his glory, governed by the emperor Trajan. There is no site of the capital that Angela will not let us go, explaining all the features, from domus to islets, from shops to schools, from the Forum to the Colosseum, the baths to toilet! Shows us, without omitting any detail, how the Romans dressed, wore make-up, ate, slept. It speaks of their lifestyle, politics, justice, religion, sex, revealing many curiosities and breaking down stereotypes wrong. We are meeting patrician matrons, slaves, gladiators, Vestal. It leaves us without any doubt or question unresolved. Alberto Angela writes as well as speaks during his television documentaries, ie with the same clarity, simplicity and passion that allowed him to make it understandable to everyone, young and old, educated and less educated, any concept, be it science or history, from simple to more complex. Skilfully through this book makes us "feel" perfume, "see" colors, "udiere" the voices, sounds and noises of Rome two thousand years ago. Not surprisingly, when reading the images next to us, attempt to guide us to the crowded streets of Rome and speak with her indistinguishable ways.
The book is accompanied by images of Gaetano Capasso and drawings by Luca Tarlazzi that support for some explanation. A day in ancient Rome is therefore a wise counsel to all who wish to discover the daily life, the secrets and curiosities of Roma caput mundi.
Alberto Angela was born in Paris in 1962. Son of noted journalist and science writer Piero and former ballet dancer Margaret Shepherd. After graduating in France, he graduated in Natural Sciences at La Sapienza University in Rome, earning the highest marks. He specialized in some American universities, has become an expert in paleontology and paleoanthropology. He earned a second degree in Economics and Social Sciences at the University Bocconi of Milan. After a long career of excavations and research in Africa and Asia, was taking care of television dedicated to the dissemination, in collaboration with his father, programs like SuperQuark, Northwest Passage and Ulysses . Also in collaboration with his father has published several books, while acting as a journalist he worked for several newspapers and magazines. Married to Monica, is the father of three children to whom he dedicated the book A day in ancient Rome. The latter also won the 2008 Prize for best work of nonfiction Cimitile. Alberto Angela was also given an asteroid, the 'Albertoangela 80652.
RATING: 5 / 5
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Title: A day in ancient Rome. Daily lives, secrets and curiosities.
Author: Alberto Angela
Publisher: Mondadori (Oscar necklace Big Bestsellers)
Year: 2008
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