Rome Fusion City

Abstract

Rome is a physical place, a container of memories, and simultaneously a psychical entity. This paper takes a present-day reader on a meandering stroll through the eternal city with the twelfth-century guidebook Mirabilia Urbis Romae and the fourteenth-century map of Rome by Fra Paolino da Venezia as companions to explore the relationship between place (or location), history, cartography, imagination, and memory.