A Thousand Bells at Noon : A Roman's Guide to the Secret and Pleasures of his Native City Book

G. Franco Romagnoli, the coauthor of The Romagnolis' Table and The New Romagnolis' Table, left Rome in his late twenties to seek his fortune as a documentary filmmaker in America. But the love of his native city took him home repeatedly for visits. A Thousand Bells at Noon is his revealing guide to contemporary Rome. From the great churches and palazzos to the small apartments and crowded streets, Romagnoli shares all of Rome's charms and contradictions. He takes readers along as he sips an espresso at a sidewalk cafe, swims in the Tiber River, and revisits the streets he explored as a boy. Romagnoli's passion for his birthplace is highly contagious.