Cobblestone Streets of Rome

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艾伦·约翰斯顿, 记者来鸿：鹅卵石的'五味瓶.'  BBC Chinese, May 31, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... _cobblestones.shtml

, which is translated from

Alan Johnston, The Uneven Charm of Rome's Cobblestones. BBC, May 31, 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22639754

Note:
(a) "I have watched many a young mum struggling to get a pram along it - their child's head juddering with every bump."

judder (vi; probably alteration of shudder; First Known Use 1931):
"chiefly British : to vibrate with intensity <the engine stalled and kept juddering — Roy Spicer>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/judder
(b) "As Roberto Giacobbi put it, the cobbles are part of the pride of Rome."

cobble (n): "COBBLESTONE"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cobble
(c) "Roberto is proudest of the work he did on Piazza di Spagna, which lies at the foot of the Spanish Steps."
(i) For Piazza di Spagna, see Spanish Steps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Steps
(Italian: Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti)

(ii) Italian-English dictionary:
(A) piazza (noun feminine): "square"
(B) Spagna (noun feminine): "Spain"
(C) Scalinata (noun feminine): "staircase"
(D) trinità (noun feminine): "trinity"
(E) dei (preposition): "of the" (dei is short for "di i")
(F) monte (noun masculine): "mount, mountain"  (its plural form is "monti")
(G) santissimo (adjective masculine): "holiest, most sacred" (the superlative of "santo")

(iii) Trinità dei Monti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinit%C3%A0_dei_Monti
(The church of the Santissima Trinità dei Monti, often called merely the Trinità dei Monti)
(iv) Monti (rione of Rome)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monti_(rione_of_Rome)

(d) "Cobblestones in Rome are known as "Sampietrini", which translates as 'little St Peters.'"

Peter (given name)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_(given_name)
(Italian: Pietro, Piero (Note: the word for stone in Italian is "pietra"))
(e) St Peter's Square
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Square