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"And here I am in Rome, calm and, from what I can understand, appeased for the rest of my life."
Goethe, b. 1749
"Had I not torn myself from Rome I never could never have resolved myself to leave."
Erasmus, b. 1466
"Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city."
Anatole Broyard, b.1920
"Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning."
Giotto, b. 1267
"Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live..."
Louisa May Alcott, b. 1832
"I no longer wonder that the whole world was conquered by this city but that I was conquered so late."
Petrarch, b. 1304
"The story of Rome is the story of the world."
Napoleon, b. 1769
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