Opening with a Naples bookshop dialogue that rejects Bulwer as too romantic and the folios of Mazois as too heavy, Monnier offers a middle way. He walks the reader through the exhumed city, the forum, the streets, the suburbs, and houses such as Pansa’s with its peristyle, explaining what each ruin reveals of daily Roman life.
An accessible, witty nineteenth-century guide to Pompeii for armchair travellers. Download the free EPUB.