Books by Ingrid D. Rowland

A study of place and creative inspiration

The calamity that proved lethal for Pompeii inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman daily life that has captured the imagination of generations, including Renoir, Freud, Hirohito, Mozart, Dickens, Twain, Rossellini, and Ingrid Bergman. Interwoven is the thread of Ingrid Rowland's own impressions of Pompeii.

The essays in this work explore the influence of antiquity on a broad spectrum of artistic production in Europe, from the 16th to the 18th centuries. It includes investigations of proto-scientific imagery, Ovidian myth, allegorical devices, and the growing influence of Ancient Greece.

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. This biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo - a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours.