The illustrious author of The Red and the Black wrote his guide to Rome in 1829 to order, in the form of a fictionalized diary of a guide who leads a small group of curious people through the eternal city.
The illustrious author of The Red and the Black wrote his guide to Rome in 1829 to order, in the form of a fictionalized diary of a guide who leads a small group of curious people through the eternal city. Stendhal borrowed some of the information from other people’s books, but it would never occur to the reader that half of the places that he so vividly describes, the author himself has not seen. The magical power of the imagination! Stendal’s Cicerone is not only a connoisseur of Crimean history, painting and architecture, but also a pleasant conversationalist who always has an anecdote or two in reserve about the election of the pope or the intrigues of the cardinals. Alexander Ivanov.
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Maya Kucherskaya