A few good websites are Wanted in Rome, Rome File, the Wikivoyage page on Rome and the official site of tourism in Rome Romaturismo.
That might be bad news for Italians, but it's good news for Rome-bound tourists, especially for those coming for the food.
Audio-video recreations of rioting centurions and a back-street mugging in the Subura might seem cheesy distractions to some, but I found them almost as good as the HBO "Rome" miniseries.
He echoes an ancient view that strife is good for humanity: bewailing Rome' s effeteness, Juvenal wrote: "Now we suffer the woes of long peace; luxury, more savage than war, has smothered us".
Rome has been good to Cardinal Pell.
He negotiated a peace with Shāpūr, by which Rome lost a good part of Galerian's conquests of 298 (including Nisibis, which had not surrendered) and abandoned Armenia.
In context, the final speech to the Senate, newly restored to power after the misrule of the Caesars, takes some beating: "Is Rome worth one good man's life?
Rome is as good a place as any to observe trends in global tourism, and what the Romans have experienced in recent years is a Bric [Brazil, Russia, India and China] through the window.
