Paul Jacobs, II, an independent scholar, has spent extensive time in Rome and focuses on Rome's topographical development. He is the co-author of Campus Martius – The Field of Mars in the Life of Ancient Rome (2014). His article on Cola di Rienzo, Renaissance Studies (2018), is set in the Sant'Angelo rione, the subject of this study.

• 1. Remembering the meadowlands: The Prata Flaminia and the circus of Gaius Flaminius, circa 500–217 BCE; 2. Setting out line: The republican circus, 217–44 BCE; 3. Fit for an emperor: Creating the Augustan circus, 44 BCE–14 CE; 4. The long show ends: The imperial circus through the gothic war, 14–554 CE; 5. Repurposing space in the early medieval era, 554–circa 1000; 6. Filling in the blanks: Developing Sant'Angelo Rione, circa 1000–1347; 7. Growth and decline along a commercial corridor, 1347–1555; 8. Two Rioni in one:Sant'Angelo and its ghetto, 1555–1800; 9. Old walls razed, new walls built: Urban renewal on the Tiber's edge, 1800–1908; 10. Travertine and Stolpersteine: Remembering the past at different levels, 1908–present.

'… Jacobs traces, over the course of 2,500 years, the “tenacious life on the Tiber's edge” of a compact, low-lying area on the river's east bank … In its impressive chronological sweep and relentless problem-solving approach, [his] book offers the most ambitious case study yet of urban process in Rome.' T. Corey Brennan, Times Literary Supplement

Paul Jacobs, II, an independent scholar, has spent extensive time in Rome and focuses on Rome's topographical development. He is the co-author of Campus Martius – The Field of Mars in the Life of Ancient Rome (2014). His article on Cola di Rienzo, Renaissance Studies (2018), is set in the Sant'Angelo rione, the subject of this study.

• 1. Remembering the meadowlands: The Prata Flaminia and the circus of Gaius Flaminius, circa 500–217 BCE; 2. Setting out line: The republican circus, 217–44 BCE; 3. Fit for an emperor: Creating the Augustan circus, 44 BCE–14 CE; 4. The long show ends: The imperial circus through the gothic war, 14–554 CE; 5. Repurposing space in the early medieval era, 554–circa 1000; 6. Filling in the blanks: Developing Sant'Angelo Rione, circa 1000–1347; 7. Growth and decline along a commercial corridor, 1347–1555; 8. Two Rioni in one:Sant'Angelo and its ghetto, 1555–1800; 9. Old walls razed, new walls built: Urban renewal on the Tiber's edge, 1800–1908; 10. Travertine and Stolpersteine: Remembering the past at different levels, 1908–present.

'… Jacobs traces, over the course of 2,500 years, the “tenacious life on the Tiber's edge” of a compact, low-lying area on the river's east bank … In its impressive chronological sweep and relentless problem-solving approach, [his] book offers the most ambitious case study yet of urban process in Rome.' T. Corey Brennan, Times Literary Supplement

Paul Jacobs, II, an independent scholar, has spent extensive time in Rome and focuses on Rome's topographical development. He is the co-author of Campus Martius – The Field of Mars in the Life of Ancient Rome (2014). His article on Cola di Rienzo, Renaissance Studies (2018), is set in the Sant'Angelo rione, the subject of this study.

• 1. Remembering the meadowlands: The Prata Flaminia and the circus of Gaius Flaminius, circa 500–217 BCE; 2. Setting out line: The republican circus, 217–44 BCE; 3. Fit for an emperor: Creating the Augustan circus, 44 BCE–14 CE; 4. The long show ends: The imperial circus through the gothic war, 14–554 CE; 5. Repurposing space in the early medieval era, 554–circa 1000; 6. Filling in the blanks: Developing Sant'Angelo Rione, circa 1000–1347; 7. Growth and decline along a commercial corridor, 1347–1555; 8. Two Rioni in one:Sant'Angelo and its ghetto, 1555–1800; 9. Old walls razed, new walls built: Urban renewal on the Tiber's edge, 1800–1908; 10. Travertine and Stolpersteine: Remembering the past at different levels, 1908–present.

'… Jacobs traces, over the course of 2,500 years, the “tenacious life on the Tiber's edge” of a compact, low-lying area on the river's east bank … In its impressive chronological sweep and relentless problem-solving approach, [his] book offers the most ambitious case study yet of urban process in Rome.' T. Corey Brennan, Times Literary Supplement