The hardest city to know, and probably also the hardest to know again after a lapse of years, Rome in the last two and a half decades might seem to have had the single aim of making its lovers 'all untrue.' It takes a while to remember, or care if you do remember, that that is in character; it would never have been called eternal otherwise.
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