Useful Links to websites for Rome Travellers

Books About Rome

A great many books about Rome have been published, and you could spend an extremely long time reading them all. Here are our recommendations on some of the best:

Guides to the city

• Masson, Georgina: The Companion Guide to Rome
• Macadam, A.: Rome: Blue Guide
• Hibbert, C.: Biography of the city

Ancient Rome

• Grant, M.: History of Rome
• Dudley, D.: Roman Society
• Carcopino, J.: Daily Life in Ancient Rome
• Sear, F.: Roman Architecture
• Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars
• Yourcenar, M.: Memoirs of Hadrian

Other books

• Morton, H. V.: A Traveller in Rome
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Marble Faun