ROLAND MAYER is Emeritus Professor of Classics at King's College London.

'Roland Mayer charts the changing attitudes towards the monuments of ancient Rome and the emotional, aesthetic and intellectual responses to the city of Rome's ruins over the past two millennia. The extraordinary simultaneity of Rome's urban topography, in which the ancient Roman ruins are still integrated into the urban fabric strikes every visitor. This study elucidates the shifts in the perception of Rome's ruins that are mirrored in imaginary visualisations, antiquarianism, guide books, souvenirs in many forms and media, the fashion for fake ruins, conservation, the development of archaeological knowledge, all of which are part of 'ruinmindedness', the leitmotif of this book.' Rosamond McKitterick, University of Cambridge

• 1. Ruins in Antiquity; 2. How Rome Became Ruinous; 3. Mediaeval Responses to the Ruins of Rome; 4. The Watershed: Petrarch and his Successors; 5. The Battle for the Ruins; 6. From Topographical Treatise to Guidebook; 7. The Ruins Visualized: Paintings and Vedute, Drawings and Engravings, Photographs; 8. 'Virtual' Rome: Rome Reconstructed-Visionary Archaeology; 9. Remembering the Grand Tour: Paintings, Models and Other Souvenirs; 10. Ruins in the Landscape Garden; 11. Conservation, Restoration and Presentation of Ruins; 12. Literary Responses to the Ruins; Epilogue.

ROLAND MAYER is Emeritus Professor of Classics at King's College London.

'Roland Mayer charts the changing attitudes towards the monuments of ancient Rome and the emotional, aesthetic and intellectual responses to the city of Rome's ruins over the past two millennia. The extraordinary simultaneity of Rome's urban topography, in which the ancient Roman ruins are still integrated into the urban fabric strikes every visitor. This study elucidates the shifts in the perception of Rome's ruins that are mirrored in imaginary visualisations, antiquarianism, guide books, souvenirs in many forms and media, the fashion for fake ruins, conservation, the development of archaeological knowledge, all of which are part of 'ruinmindedness', the leitmotif of this book.' Rosamond McKitterick, University of Cambridge

• 1. Ruins in Antiquity; 2. How Rome Became Ruinous; 3. Mediaeval Responses to the Ruins of Rome; 4. The Watershed: Petrarch and his Successors; 5. The Battle for the Ruins; 6. From Topographical Treatise to Guidebook; 7. The Ruins Visualized: Paintings and Vedute, Drawings and Engravings, Photographs; 8. 'Virtual' Rome: Rome Reconstructed-Visionary Archaeology; 9. Remembering the Grand Tour: Paintings, Models and Other Souvenirs; 10. Ruins in the Landscape Garden; 11. Conservation, Restoration and Presentation of Ruins; 12. Literary Responses to the Ruins; Epilogue.