All Roads Lead to Quiet Corners in Rome: Book Event Today

The die is cast: our meet & greet at the main Rizzoli bookstore in New York City happens tonight, from 5:30-7pm (57th St between 5/6th Aves).

Be there or be off the square — that dreamy piazza in Rome you remember from your last trip to the Eternal City of Millennial Cliches and Endless Fascination.

Why all the capital letters? Easy: Rome deserves the attention. Its device since the time of the Caesars is SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus.

Yes, you are right: to Italians in most of the rest of Italy, SPQR also stands for Sono porci questi romani — these Romans are pigs!

But as we prove in Quiet Corners of Rome, if the Romans are pigs, they live in a pretty amazing sty. Here’s the beginning of the bumph from the publisher’s website, below.

Remember: you’re invited! Please come to our event this evening at Rizzoli books in NYC!

QUIET CORNERS OF ROME

Climb a staircase clinging to one of the Seven Hills or pass through a majestic stone archway to discover more than sixty of the most beautiful, tranquil, and sometimes wonderfully unknown places in Rome. Lose yourself in the grounds of the Villa Borghese before finding the walled garden of a sculptor’s-studio-turned-museum, where few tourists set foot. You’ll find courtyards where mossy fountains splash; cool, quiet cloisters; exquisite gardens scented by boxwood and bay trees; pocket-sized piazzas filled with archaeological details dating to the days of Caesar. Some are secret enclaves that even the most sophisticated Romans haven’t wandered into. The text may recall the history of a locale, a literary reference that brings the setting to life—and always the perfect time to visit each place to see it at its most atmospheric.

This charming guidebook celebrates over fifty of the most beautiful, tranquil, and often hidden places in the Eternal City. Some of Rome’s quiet corners boast breathtaking views, while others are filled with archaeological or architectural details, from crumbling aqueducts or majestic stone archways, to Renaissance garden follies, frescoed walls, and Baroque fountains. Enter a maze of alleys near the open market at Campo de’ Fiori, for instance, and discover leafy Romanesque courtyards where cats laze amid Vespas and potted palms, or lose yourself in any number of verdant parks and gardens that provide a cool and shadowy refuge….