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03938aam a22003858i 4500 001 7A27F74A173711EFA068004147ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240521010044 008 240124s2024 nyu b 000 0deng 010 $a 2024003500 020 $a 0593490088 020 $a 9780593490082 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a DG807.6 $b .H657 2024 082 00 $2 23/eng/20240207 100 1 $a Holstein, Alizah, $e author. 245 10 $a MY ROMAN HISTORY / $c Alizah Holstein. 263 $a 2406 264 1 $a New York : $b Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2024/06/25 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Romana -- 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 ithome. 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a Rome (Italy) $x Civilization. 651 0 $a Rome (Italy) $x Description and travel. $9 74872 600 10 $a Holstein, Alizah $x Travel $z Rome. $z Rome. 600 00 $a Dante Alighieri, $d 1265-1321 $x Influence. 650 0 $a Americans $z Rome $z Rome $v Biography. 651 0 $a Rome (Italy) $x Study and teaching. 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Holstein, Alizah. $t My Roman history $d New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2024 $z 9780593490099 $w (DLC) 2024003501 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20240521010624.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7A27F74A173711EFA068004147ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search