The Eternal City : History and Legend
The sayings ‘Rome was not built in a day’, ‘All roads lead to Rome’ or ‘In Rome do as the Romans do’ are popular proverbs indicating a more contemporary association with the ‘eternal city’. Quotations by travellers over the centuries show little, if any, enthusiasm about visits to Rome, rather more disappointment and disillusion of its … insalubrious decadence and ruin. Today Rome provides the same views and sights of ‘grandiose’ or, in the view of some, ‘monstrous’ architecture…
