Seeing Rome through a Native’s Eyes
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.28.02 | 1:01 PM ET
Peter Davison had visited Rome five times, each with “fascination and love.” For his sixth trip this past May, he took along a copy of G. Franco Romagnoli’s new book, “A Thousand Bells at Noon: A Roman’s Guide to the Secrets and Pleasures of His Native City.” It left a huge impression.
“The Rome that its three million inhabitants live in vibrates with a degree of life that no mere monument can produce. Romagnoli’s narrative awoke me to my memories of that Rome, the loud, fragrant streets, the guitarists and accordionists and flower-sellers in the old city, the traffic and the sexuality, the liquid grace of its living fountains, the taste of its robust food, the sardonic humor of its shopkeepers and idlers,” he writes this month in the Atlantic Unbound. “His book evokes the Rome that lives, the kernel rather than the husk.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
