A Day In The Life Of Rome By Alberto Angela Summary

Today there stands a city that has had thousands of years preserved underneath its streets. Archeologists and historians are working together to find out the story of this city, but often times the translation of academic findings to the rest of the world is not fulfilled. In popular culture today there are many gross interpretations of roman life that misguide the common consumer of information to get a terrible understanding of what roman life was like. There is a man though that is trying to change that and his name is Alberto Angela. In his book, “A Day In The Life Of Ancient Rome”, Angela attempts to show Rome as it truly was mean to be. Angela does a superb job at this but his book falls into some serious traps such as poor writing, but he does make up for it in beautiful content and this is why his book works. Alberto Angela loves to give wonderful stories of Rome to help the reader understand what Rome was like, but often times the reader ends up reading things that seem almost entirely random. Angela writes such long depictions of things that sometimes the story devolves into some strange tangent that has no relation to what he was originally talking about. Some of these tangents are small interjections that in the end actually provide a better sense of Rome than before. A …show more content…
Not all of the book is factual, but it does not have to be because what Angela does what the Historians and Archeologists could not do. He added the fictitious events to let our mind truly see what Rome was like. Whether or not the events in the book actually happened or not does not actually matter because the Rome that the readers mind will see after reading this book will probably the closest will ever get to actually seeing what Rome was like. This is why Alberto Angela succeeded in his efforts to show the Rome he saw and to spread that image to