# The Narrative of Trajan's Column

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- Authors: [Italo Calvino](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4147-285-9
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2020-09-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Taken from his Collection of Sand , these marvelous essays are not great ideas in themselves but commentaries on great ideas and the physical remains they have left behind them: astonishing objects and human-made places which have encapsulated different senses of wonder and desire. The essays range from fire-temples to world-changing maps, from automata to ancient cities. And, not least, the great enigma that has sat at the heart of Rome for some 1,900 years: Trajan's Column.