Magick City: Travellers to Rome from the Middle Ages to 1900, Volume I: The Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century, by Ronald T. Ridley
Magick City: Travellers to Rome from the Middle Ages to 1900, Volume I: The Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century, by Ronald T. Ridley
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Paperback – 214 x 141 mm – 300 pages
Twenty-three colour illustrations and seventy-three in black and white
ISBN 9781843680673
The first volume of the most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled; a trove of travel writing that is witty, profound and endlessly entertaining. This volume presents from the Middle Ages to 1699.
Drawing on French, Italian, Spanish, English and American sources, many hitherto neglected, Ronald T. Ridley has compiled an endlessly vivid and thought-provoking collage-portrait of Rome through the centuries, illustrated with over 200 images and published in three elegant volumes: The Middles Ages to the Seventeenth Century, The Eighteenth Century and The Nineteenth Century, each richly illustrated throughout and with source notes and a list of popes.
Ronald T. Ridley first taught at the University of Sydney, then at the University of Melbourne, retiring in 2005 from a personal chair. His research interests concentrate on Egyptian and Roman history, historiography and archaeology. He is the author of some fifteen books, including a history of Rome, a translation of Zosimus, biographies of Bernardino Drovetti and Carlo Fea, and The Eagle and the Spade (the archaeology of Rome 1808-1814). He is a Fellow of the Antiquaries' Society, the Royal Historical Society, the Pontifical Academy of Roman Archaeology, and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
In 2019, Ronald T. Ridley was awarded the Premio Daria Borghese for his Prince of Antiquarians: Francesco de Ficoroni; and in 2022 he was made an honorary citizen of Italy in recognition of his con- tribution to Roman history.