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100	1		_aHolstein, Alizah, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMy Roman history / _cAlizah Holstein.
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264		1	_aNew York : _bViking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, _c2024.
300			_apages cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aRomana -- Rome at a gallop -- Dante led me here -- A family story -- Ancient history -- All hungerings -- Searching for Dante -- Dollar by dollar, word by word -- Waiting to be realigned -- Arrival -- American Beatrice -- Keys to a walled city -- A sparrow flies into a hall -- Ithaca -- Living Latin -- Reversing course -- The past is a great din -- Winter will melt away -- Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza -- Via della Scala -- The Holy Roman Alpine Club -- Vatican Library -- Via Appia -- If only I could live in their times -- Americana -- Checklist -- Teaching Rome -- No map, no Virgil -- New words -- Fabulation -- The Pied Piper -- Counting -- Your story -- Into the crevasse -- Sacred grove -- Beatrice -- Ascent.
520			_a"In this exquisite and profound memoir, a medieval historian traces her lifelong obsession with Rome and the encounters with the city's past and present that became fulcrum points in her life From the time she first felt called to its gates as a high school student fascinated by Dante and Italian thanks to a life-changing teacher, Rome has been a fixed star around which Alizah Holstein's life has rotated-despite the fact that she bears no Italian heritage, and has never lived there long enough to call it home. In this kaleidoscopic yet intimate memoir, her shifting relationship to a vibrant city layered with human history becomes a lens on why we look to the past, on the mysteries of affinity and desire, and on what it means to grow up. Holstein weaves the stories of Romans past and present, and encounters with the city of historical figures from Petrarch to Freud, into the narrative of her evolution from a curious student abuzz with the thrill of discovery, to a lonely researcher in a city to which she feels she belongs despite knowing no one, to an ambitious young historian struggling to find her place in the halls of academia. Following a trail of memories-that first taste of a tartufo cioccolato in Piazza Navona, the ancient walls of the Via Appia blurring from the back of a motorcycle, the smudge of ink on a manuscript left by a scribe's hand over seven hundred years before-she explores what it means to be romana, Roman-and to find solace and self-knowledge in the presence of the past. An enveloping, original, and deeply resonant account, set against one of the world's most beguiling cities, of the unexpected things that give our lives meaning, My Roman History is a profound depiction of the winding path to self-realization, which-much like history itself-is mysterious, captivating, and ever-unfolding"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aHolstein, Alizah _xTravel _zItaly _zRome.
600	0	0	_aDante Alighieri, _d1265-1321 _xInfluence.
650		0	_aAmericans _zItaly _zRome _vBiography.
651		0	_aRome (Italy) _xCivilization.
651		0	_aRome (Italy) _xDescription and travel.
651		0	_aRome (Italy) _xStudy and teaching.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aHolstein, Alizah. _tMy Roman history _dNew York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2024 _z9780593490099 _w(DLC) 2024003501
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