Carlo Fea

The Pope's Archaeologist

• Author(s): Ronald T. Ridley

• Categories: Social Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2000
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Ragionamento dell'avv. d. Carlo Fea commissario delle antichita' sopra le terme Tauriane il tempio di Venere e Roma il foro di Domiziano e d'Augusto ec. Letto nell'Accademia Archeologica il di 11. gennaro 1821

• Author(s): Carlo Fea

• Categories: Archaeology

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1821
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Miscellanea filologica critica e antiquaria dell'avvocato Carlo Fea

• Author(s): Carlo Fea

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1836
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Opere

• Author(s): Carlo Fea

• Categories: Rome

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1812
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Colosseum

• Author(s): Keith Hopkins, Mary Beard

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2012-06-01
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• Publisher: Harvard University Press

Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome’s most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual temptation. Today it is the highlight of a tour of Italy for more than three million visitors a year, a concert arena for the likes of Paul McCartney, and a national symbol of opposition to the death penalty. Its ancient history is chock full of romantic but erroneous myths. There is no evidence that any gladiator ever said “Hail Caesar, those about to die...” and we know of not one single Christian martyr who met his finish here. Yet the reality i...