Rome, Pollution and Propriety Dirt, Disease and Hygiene in the Eternal City from Antiquity to Modernity
Book contents
- Rome, Pollution and Propriety
- Series page
- Rome, Pollution and Propriety
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Note on contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Approaches to pollution and propriety
- Part I Antiquity
- Part II Modernity
- 8 Fra Girolamo Savonarola and the aesthetics of pollution in fifteenth-century Rome
- 9 Purging filth: plague and responses to it in Rome, 1656–7
- 10 Was the ghetto cleaner…?
- 11 Urban ablutions: cleansing Counter-Reformation Rome
- 12 The clash of picturesque decay and modern cleanliness in late nineteenth-century Rome
- 13 Vile bodies: Victorian Protestants in the Roman catacombs
- 14 Delinquency and pederasty: ‘deviant’ youngsters in the suburbs of Fascist Rome
- Envoi. Purity and danger: its life and afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
10 - Was the ghetto cleaner…?
from Part II - Modernity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
Book contents
- Rome, Pollution and Propriety
- Series page
- Rome, Pollution and Propriety
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Note on contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Approaches to pollution and propriety
- Part I Antiquity
- Part II Modernity
- 8 Fra Girolamo Savonarola and the aesthetics of pollution in fifteenth-century Rome
- 9 Purging filth: plague and responses to it in Rome, 1656–7
- 10 Was the ghetto cleaner…?
- 11 Urban ablutions: cleansing Counter-Reformation Rome
- 12 The clash of picturesque decay and modern cleanliness in late nineteenth-century Rome
- 13 Vile bodies: Victorian Protestants in the Roman catacombs
- 14 Delinquency and pederasty: ‘deviant’ youngsters in the suburbs of Fascist Rome
- Envoi. Purity and danger: its life and afterlife
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Rome, Pollution and ProprietyDirt, Disease and Hygiene in the Eternal City from Antiquity to Modernity, pp. 169 - 181Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012