{"id":4696,"date":"2015-05-14T16:16:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T15:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitue.de\/?p=4696"},"modified":"2015-05-14T16:16:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T15:16:06","slug":"romische-geschichten-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/?p=4696","title":{"rendered":"R\u00f6mische Geschichten (VI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mitue\/17012208293\" title=\"Rom392 by Michael T., auf Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7657\/17012208293_051432d74b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" alt=\"Rom392\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Byron developed his own vision of Rome in the fourth Canto of Childe Harold\u2019s Pilgrimage, where he writes (with characteristic grandeur):<\/p>\n<p>Rome \u2014 Rome imperial, bows her to the storm,<br \/>\nIn the same dust and blackness, and we pass<br \/>\nThe skeleton of her Titanic form,<br \/>\nWrecks of another world, whose ashes still are warm. (IV. 46)<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>Oh Rome! my country! city of the soul!<br \/>\nThe orphans of the heart must turn to thee,<br \/>\nLone mother of dead empires! and control<br \/>\nIn their shut breasts their petty misery. (IV. 78)<\/p>\n<p>Rome admired Byron back, and it comes as no surprise that the poet is omnipresent in the city. In the Villa Borghese, for instance, look for the Byron statue at the entrance to the park. This is a copy of the famous Thorvaldsen bust of the poet, for which he posed in Rome in 1817 (the original statue, refused by Westminster Abbey, is at Trinity College, Cambridge).<br \/>\n(more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nassrgrads.com\/the-romantic-poets-travel-guide-to-italy\/\">here<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mitue\/17630167632\" title=\"Rom393 by Michael T., auf Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5446\/17630167632_07d53b0e24.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"339\" alt=\"Rom393\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron developed his own vision of Rome in the fourth Canto of Childe Harold\u2019s Pilgrimage, where he writes (with characteristic grandeur): Rome \u2014 Rome imperial, bows her to the storm, In the same dust and blackness, and we pass The skeleton of her Titanic form, Wrecks of another world, whose ashes still are warm. (IV. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[606],"class_list":["post-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jwd","tag-rom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitue.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}