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Profondamente nutrito della cultura e dello scetticismo del secolo dei lumi, Edward Gibbon ha creato, con "Declino e caduta dell'impero romano", un'opera ormai classica, la narrazione di alcuni degli eventi fondamentali della nostra civiltà visti dagli occhi di un inglese del Settecento. Da Marco Aurelio alle grandi invasioni barbariche, dai primi segni della decadenza alla finale caduta dell'Impero, il compendio in un solo volume che Dero A. Saunders ha tratto dalla vastissima opera storica del "Tacito inglese" offre ai lettori il racconto, sempre e soltanto nelle parole di Gibbon (con le brevi interruzioni di alcuni brani di raccordo dovuti allo stesso Saunders), di un periodo tra i più affascinanti, drammatici e tumultuosi della storia romana.
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- Pagine: 544
- Data di uscita: 25-05-2017
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The history of human civilization and society is basically a continuum of idiots, sociopaths, murderers and bores, punctuated by the occasional rational individual whose life is cut short by those very sociopaths that succeed him. Gibbon's classic documents a tiny cross-section of some of the most l Leggi tutto
Well, it's not actually the last word on the Empire. Gibbon hated the Byzantines, thought they were appallingly religious and ineluctably corrupt. So he didn't have a good word to say on the Eastern Empire which lasted 1000 years after the fall of the Western Empire. Modern historians have rehabilit Leggi tutto
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – by Edward Gibbon, VOL III Reviewed 16th Feb 2023 Volume III takes us from about 365 CE to around 490 CE. This period covers the first time the Eternal City was sacked for around eight hundred years, a momentous event indeed. The Empire was split in two at th Leggi tutto
I have a question that I think you might be able to help me with: should we send this book into space? You know, download it into a golden thumb drive—or perhaps seal a nice leather-bound set in a container—strap it to a rocket, and let it float like the Voyager space probe for all of time. There ar Leggi tutto
The obvious issue to address in reviewing the 3,500-page unabridged edition of Gibbon's masterpiece, is whether the maniacal effort to attack such a work could ever justify preferring it over a single-volume abridged edition. That is an easy call. This work is occasionally tough, often exciting, but Leggi tutto
Reading parts of this again for work, and realised I never reviewed this absolutely massive book. One of the most fascinating (and distorted) works of history ever written, created by one of the most famous (and biased and opinionated) historians of all time. Full review to come.
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