" Without love, this city would cease to be itself as "this / World would not be the (*) world" according to a poem addressing its stones, palaces and streets by the author of a travelogue describing its "society of Arcadians" and the "signal for complete licence" given during its firework-free Carnival.
After a leader takes power in this city, "blood is abundant and wine is rarer" according to an anonymous poem found in the same place as one addressed to those who did "what the Barbarians didn't do." A king issues an edict saying, "I am Me, and you're nothing but shit" in a satirical sonnet in the dialect of this city, where many authors have posted protest poems on "talking statutes." Without love, this city would cease to be itself as "this / World would not be the (*) world" according to a poem addressing its stones, palaces and streets by the author of a travelogue describing its "society of Arcadians" and the "signal for complete licence" given during its firework-free Carnival. Stendhal's idea of "crystallization" describes falling in love as a visit to this birthplace of pasquinade, where Wilhelm Tischbein and Angelica Kauffmann befriended an author who wrote Egmont here on his Journey. For 10 points, name this hometown of G. G. Belli, which titles a series of Goethe Elegies.
After a leader takes power in this city, "blood is abundant and wine is rarer" according to an anonymous poem found in the same place as one addressed to those who did "what the Barbarians didn't do."
Rome [or Roma; accept the Eternal City or Caput Mundi or other nicknames]