The last day of Rome - Alberto Angela - HarperCollins Italia

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Book in Italian.

Rome, Saturday 18 July 64 AD It is a hot summer night, the city is about to wake up with its streets bustling with activity and people, and is completely unaware of what will happen in a few hours... "Rome is still asleep, and to accompany our thoughts there are only the songs of some nightingales that nest on the roofs, the trickle of water from a fountain, the barking of a dog who knows where and the distant and indecipherable exclamations of the last carters who during the night have stocked the shops. And the quiet before a new chaotic and dazzling day." It will be Vindex and Saturninus, two vigilantes on duty that day, who will guide us through the streets to discover the daily life of one of the largest inhabited centers of the time. During their patrol, the powerful veteran and the very young recruit will carry out a fundamental job for the order and safety of the population: control and eliminate the countless sources of danger in a city where fire is used for everything and tragedy is always present. ambush... Following them in their daily work, we discover a Rome largely made of wood, we enter the shops full of flammable goods that overlook the streets, we hear the noises and smells coming from everywhere and we witness scenes agenda in a multicultural Rome that resembles today's Rome much more than you might think.

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Book in Italian.

Rome, Saturday 18 July 64 AD It is a hot summer night, the city is about to wake up with its streets bustling with activity and people, and is completely unaware of what will happen in a few hours... "Rome is still asleep, and to accompany our thoughts there are only the songs of some nightingales that nest on the roofs, the trickle of water from a fountain, the barking of a dog who knows where and the distant and indecipherable exclamations of the last carters who during the night have stocked the shops. And the quiet before a new chaotic and dazzling day." It will be Vindex and Saturninus, two vigilantes on duty that day, who will guide us through the streets to discover the daily life of one of the largest inhabited centers of the time. During their patrol, the powerful veteran and the very young recruit will carry out a fundamental job for the order and safety of the population: control and eliminate the countless sources of danger in a city where fire is used for everything and tragedy is always present. ambush... Following them in their daily work, we discover a Rome largely made of wood, we enter the shops full of flammable goods that overlook the streets, we hear the noises and smells coming from everywhere and we witness scenes agenda in a multicultural Rome that resembles today's Rome much more than you might think.

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