Rome and The Guidebook Tradition

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2019

Rome and The Guidebook Tradition

From the Middle Ages to the 20th Century

Edited by: Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615630

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To this day, no comprehensive academic study of the development of guidebooks to Rome over time has been performed. This book treats the history of guidebooks to Rome from the Middle Ages up to the early twentieth century. It is based on the results of the interdisciplinary research project Topos and Topography, led by Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota. From the case studies performed within the project, it becomes evident that the guidebook as a phenomenon was formed in Rome during the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance. The elements and rhetorical strategies of guidebooks over time have shown to be surprisingly uniform, with three important points of development: a turn towards a more user-friendly structure from the seventeenth century and onward; the so-called ’Baedeker effect’ in the mid-nineteenth century; and the introduction of a personalized guiding voice in the first half of the twentieth century. Thus, the ‘guidebook tradition’ is an unusually consistent literary oeuvre, which also forms a warranty for the authority of every new guidebook. In this respect, the guidebook tradition is intimately associated with the city of Rome, with which it shares a constantly renovating yet eternally fixed nature.

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A. Blennow, University of Gothenburg and S. Fogelberg Rota, Umeå University, Sweden.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
The authors Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota Open Access Download PDF	1
1. Wanderers and Wonders. The Medieval Guidebooks to Rome Anna Blennow Open Access Download PDF	33
2. Two Sixteenth-Century Guidebooks and the Bibliotopography of Rome Victor Plahte Tschudi Open Access Download PDF	89
3. Architects, Antiquarians, and the Rise of the Image in Renaissance Guidebooks to Ancient Rome Anna Bortolozzi Open Access Download PDF	115
4. Fioravante Martinelli’s Roma ricercata nel suo sito and his “lettore forastiero” Stefano Fogelberg Rota Open Access Download PDF	163
5. “Authors of degenerated Renaissance known as Baroque”. The Baedeker Effect and the Arts: Shortcuts to Artistic Appreciation in Nineteenth-Century Rome Sabrina Norlander Eliasson Open Access Download PDF	197
6. Mental Maps and the Topography of the Mind. A Swedish Guide to the Roman Centuries Frederick Whitling Open Access Download PDF	229
7. Ellen Rydelius’ Rom på 8 dagar (Rome in 8 Days). A Story of Change and Success Carina Burman Open Access Download PDF	275
8. Codifying the Genre of Early Modern Guidebooks: Oskar Pollak, Ludwig Schudt and the Creation of Le Guide di Roma (1930) Arnold Witte, Eva van Kemenade, Niels Graaf and Joëlle Terburg Open Access Download PDF	313
Appendix I: Must-See Monuments – the Colosseum in Guidebooks through the Centuries Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota Open Access Download PDF	339
Appendix II: Itineraries through Trastevere from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century Open Access Download PDF	345
Name Index Open Access Download PDF	349
Place Index Open Access Download PDF	355

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Literature, History, Classics, Art history, Architecture, and Heritage Studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 357
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
- Coloured Illustrations: 64
Keywords: Guidebooks; Rome studies; cultural heritage

eBook

Published: April 1, 2019
ISBN: 9783110615630

Hardcover

Published: April 1, 2019
ISBN: 9783110610444