Introduction: Eternal and Fleeting.

Translator's Note.

I. The People of Rome.

II. The Solitude of Rome.

III. The Two-Cent Coin.

IV. Sunday Stroll. 

V. The Helicopter.

VI. Apparitions in Rome.

VII. The Duty of the Comet.

VIII. Elegy to the Mid-August Holidays.

IX. Hyperbolic Tourism.

X. Killing Time.

XI. Points of View.

XII. The Power of the Poor.

XIII. Brigands and Peasants.

XIV. Plants and Seeds.

XV. The Steps of Rome.

XVI. The Empty Cities.

XVII. Girls and Trees.

XVIII. Roosters and Nightingale, Singing Together.

XIX. Summer Journey.

XX. The New Moon.

XXI. Saint Lawrence and Saint Paul.

XXII. A Child in Flight.

XXIII. After the Party.

XXIV. Substance and Chance.

XXV. Clothes Moths.

XXVI. Japanese Toys.

XXVII. Soccer and Men of Letters.

XXVIII. The Drainage Ditch and the Measles.

XXIX. A Boy Stealing a Car Radio in the Piazza Navona.

XXX. The Labyrinth.

XXXI. City of Brothers.

XXXII. Summer Dissolves in Mists.

XXXIII. Fleeting Rome.

Notes to the Text.

Basic Chronology of Carlo Levi's Life.

Index.