Abstract

In 1941 Aldo Palazzeschi moved from Florence to Rome, the city that became the protagonist of Roma, published in 1953. An extraordinary and forgotten novel, which can be read both as a representation of social changes occurred between the end of the war and the years of rebirth, and as a guide to accompany the reader on a journey through the streets and squares of the «young and decrepit, poor and billionaire, intimate and brash, narrow and infinite» city.