...R. Taylor Cole Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Rome: Some Political Highlights After Fifty Years, 1934-81 R. Taylor Cole I have been interested in the political vicissitudes of Rome since high­ school days when I followed with awe the early history of the city in Latin writings...

...Edwin R. Clapp Copyright © 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 TWO ROADS TO ROME; AN ESSAY IN DISTINCTION EDWIN R. CLAPP Boston, Mass. I WHEN IN 1493 Alexander the Sixth drew upon the Atlantic the famous line of demarcation defining the spheres of Spain and Portugal in the new world, he...

...Helen Barolini Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Milton in Rome Helen Barolini In Rome I lived for several years on the top floor of an office building which, it was said, had earlier been, as Palazzo Moroni, the summer residence of Egyptian King Fuad. What it had been didn t...

...E. Malcolm Carroll Inside Rome with the Germans . By Scrivener Jane . Foreword by C. J. H. Hayes, former United States Ambassador to Spain. New York : The Macmillan Company , 1945 . Pp. xi , 204 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 258 The South Atlantic...

...Joseph Ward Swain Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 EDWARD GIBBON AND THE DECLINE OF ROME JOSEPH WARD SWAIN THE OFT-REPEATED story tells how, on the evening of October ij, 1764, young Edward Gibbon sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, when the idea of writing the decline...

...Howard R. Marraro Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 AMERICAN OPINION ON THE OCCUPATION OF ROME IN 1870* Howard R. Marraro THERE WAS NO QUESTION as to the side with which Americans sympathized in the Franco-Prussian War. It was generally believed that Louis Napoleon...

...Anne Mack; J. J. Rome Anne Mack and J. J. Rome Marxism, Romanticism, and Postmodernism: An American Case History [ I his past month we received the follow­ ing document: the report of a discussion between three professors identified in the document only as J., M., and A. We know A. is female...

...Anne Mack; J. J. Rome Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Anne Mack and J. J. Rome The Alphabet, Spelt from Silliman s Leaves (A Conversation on the American Longpoem ) At the limits of reflection, the value of knowledge, it seems, depends upon its ability to make any con­ clusive...

...Saki Bailey; Maria Edgarda Marcucci This essay explores the legal and political dimensions of the occupation of the Teatro Valle in Rome and the transformation of the theater into a common goods foundation. The theater workers, acting together as a social movement for the protection of cultural...

..., even fugi­ tive criminals, to whom Romulus had offered an asylum. There were excellent opportunities for foreigners in a grow­ ing town of recent foundation, where nobility depended only upon personal quality. The second of the traditional kings of Rome was a foreigner, the Sabine Numa, and the fifth...

..., in the literary grand tour offered in Tender Is the Night no other section of the novel both delves so deeply into the character of Dick Diver and extends so far outward into what Fitzgerald regarded as the pathology of Western civilization as the five chapters set in Rome. In fact, departing here from...

... it was learned that he had previously arranged to speak to the Methodists in Rome, mem­ bers of his own church. Mr. Roosevelt was granted an audience only on condition that he would bind himself not to visit the Methodist Church in Rome. He refused to accept the conditions attached. Nothing has been shown...

..., in French history and literature, was exclusively the Napoleonic per­ formance, of which the Second Empire was a would-be novel addition. I Certainly in speaking of empire it is fitting to consider the case of Rome, from which the word derives a word initially of military use and the broad future model...

..., that is, to become a member of the state that, above all others, stands for the greatness of the State. Horace recounts what can be thought of as Rome’s second founding. Based on the famous story of the Horatii in Livy’s History of Rome, Corneille describes a historical threshold: a moment of transition from...

..., apparently, that it was connected with idolatry, par­ ticularly in Egypt. Greece and Rome seem to have adopted a position between these two extremes. In these countries, as in the civilized' world in general to-day, dogs served three main purposes. They were used in hunting, as guardians, or as [405 ] 406...

..., by disillusionment following after a great war, and by changing moral standards. But Virgil was not merely the child of Augustan Rome; he had to an 156 The South Atlantic Quarterly unusual degree absorbed the modes of thought and feeling of his great predecessors in Greek and Latin literature, and especially...

... represents less than 10 per cent of the total registration in foreign languages. Eight Italian universities (Florence, Cagliari, Naples, Milan, Venice, Rome, Urbino, and Turin) have full professorships in Eng­ lish. There are, however, eleven professorships in French; eleven in German; four in Russian; two...

.... New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1967. Pp. xix, 172. $6.95. This book opens by evoking the fascination that ancient Rome had for Petrarch and, four centuries later, for Edward Gibbon. Obviously, the author shares that fascination, and to a consider­ able extent is successful in conveying...

... precipitated a spiritual crisis in Rome which was the first cause of all that followed. Admirers of the Gracchi as great liberal reformers will find the book a bitter draught; the reviewer, never, even in his youth, a lover of the Gracchi, finds happily here his vindication, yet sincerely believes a reader...

... of paganism and to destroy those conceptions on which the strength of Rome was founded. However satisfactory this expla­ nation may be for the relation of Christianity and Rome in the third century, it is not sufficient for the situation in the first two centuries. The doctrines and world claims of the new...