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1) Just passing through: a seven-decade Roman holiday : the diaries and photographs of Milton Gendel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of diary entries and photographs by Milton Gendel"--
"“I’m just passing through,” Milton Gendel liked to say whenever anybody asked him what he was doing in Rome. Even after seven decades in the Eternal City, from his arrival as a Fulbright Scholar in 1949 until his death in 2018 at the age of ninety-nine, he refused to be pigeonholed. He was always an American--never an “expat,” never an émigré--but he also couldn’t leave,...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
This book is the chronicle of a group of extraordinary skeletons discovered in the Roman Catacombs in the late sixteenth century. Largely anonymous, they were nevertheless held to be the remains of Early Christian martyrs, and treated as sacred. Sent to Catholic churches and religious houses in German-speaking Europe to replace holy relics that had been destroyed in the wake of the Protestant Reformation, the skeletons were carefully reassembled,...
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