The Morgan Library as well as Museum has been inspired yesteryear August Hare's 1870 guidebook 'Walks inwards Rome' to practice their ain interactive map of the eternal city. Hare's master guide to Rome included a wealth of literary quotations almost the city's magnificent ancient buildings as well as monuments. The Morgan Library as well as Museum's City of the Soul, similarly explores how Rome provided the inspiration for many nineteenth century authors as well as poets.
The interactive City of the Soul map was created for the museum’s exhibition on Rome as well as the Romantics.The City of the Soul allows y'all to explore Rome through the literary insights of a release of nineteenth century writers. If y'all lead 1 of the city's famous locations on the map y'all tin read from a choice of literary industrial plant which were inspired yesteryear the chosen edifice or monument.
The basemap used for the City of the Soul is Paul-Marie Letarouilly’s 1841 metropolis plan. If y'all similar Letarouilly's excogitation of Rome therefore y'all mightiness also bask this fully interactive version of Lanciani's Forma Urbis Romae. At the plough of the 20th Century Italian archeologist Rodolfo Lanciani undertook the chore of creating a huge detailed map of Rome. H5N1 map which would visualize when dissimilar parts of the metropolis were built.
Lanciani’s Forma Urbis Romae is color codded to demo the dissimilar historical epochs when dissimilar areas of Rome were built. On the map ancient as well as medieval Rome is shown inwards black, early on modern Rome inwards crimson as well as the modern metropolis (to Lanciani) is shown inwards blue.
