eBooks - History - World - Edward Gibbon - J. B. Bury - Daniel J. Boorstin - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I eBooks
By: Edward Gibbon ~ Editor: J. B. Bury ~ Introduction by: Daniel J. Boorstin
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I Summary
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"It was in Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind," recorded Edward Gibbon with characteristic exactitude. Over a period of some twenty years, the luminous eighteenth-century historian -- a precise, dapper, idiosyncratic little gentleman famous for rapping his snuff-box -- devoted his considerable genius to writing an epic chronicle of the entire Roman Empire's decline. His single flash of inspiration produced what is arguably the greatest historical work in any language -- and surely the most magnificent narrative history ever written in English. This three-volume Modern Library edition of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- with Gibbon's notes -- is edited with a general introduction and index by Professor J.B. Bury, along with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin. The volumes are illustrated with reproductions of etchings by Gian Battista Piranesi. The first volume contains chapters one through twenty-six of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
"Gibbon is one of those few who hold as high a place in the history of literature as in the roll of great historians." J.B. BURY
Jacket etching: detail from Arco di Constantino in Roma by Gian Battista Piranesi |
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