The Italian Cultural Society of Long Beach Island will take people on a virtual tour of ancient and modern Rome on Monday, May 9 at 6 p.m. when it presents "Rome: City of God(s), City of Man" at the Long Beach Island Branch of the Ocean County Library in Surf City.

Guest lecturer Christopher Bellitto, associate professor of history at Kean University, said Rome began as a tiny settlement, grew into the center of a world empire, fell into centuries of disrepair, was resurrected by medieval popes and Renaissance patrons, then limped into modernity only to be revived once more as a temple of both secularism and religion.

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