Edited by Fabrizio Toppetti and Vincenzo Moschetti, Mirabilia Itinerari nell’immaginario di Roma e dintorni, 2025

Mirabilia is the first attempt to offer a concise overview of the city of Rome through cartographic, iconographic and literary representations, from its origins to the present day, by artists, writers and travellers.
The volume, which is first and foremost a guide to the times and spaces of the Eternal City, is presented as a document capable of bringing together a boundless and precious heritage of maps, images and descriptions, which together form a varied imaginary world. Orchestrated around the connection between text and images, it makes use of a dense array of heterogeneous materials from various sources, carefully selected and held together by a narrative sequence based on associations, assonances and contrasts. The structure is divided into five periods (from the city’s origins to the present day), with 1670, the year conventionally considered to be the origin of the term Grand Tour, as their narrative pivot. The volume is accompanied by analytical readings – anchored to data as well as to today’s news – and theoretical essays, which fuel multidisciplinary reflection. As a whole, it offers a critical vision that, starting from the past through references and reflections, interprets Rome and its possible futures from the perspective of mindful and sustainable tourism.