The end of Rome - Corrado Augias Einaudi

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Book in Italian.

A sunset and a dawn, a decline and an affirmation. The end of Rome resembles two figures that mirror each other, now opposite, now closely connected, like two wrestlers who hold each other in an attempt to overpower each other. In this new, fascinating historical fresco, Corrado Augias presents us with Christian Rome, telling the stories of men, women, places and monuments that characterized the end of the old world, and announced the beginning and triumph of a new era. At the beginning of the fourth century the Roman Empire had approximately seventy million inhabitants, and it is estimated that less than ten percent of the population adhered to the Christian religion. A minority, but growing. Therefore, adopting that religion, admitting it among the permitted faiths and declaring itself a member was, on the part of Constantine, a gesture of immense audacity. After having annihilated the penultimate of his competitors, Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius, in the famous battle of the Milvian Bridge, Constantine triumphantly entered Rome along the entire length of the Via Lata (now Via del Corso)

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Book in Italian.

A sunset and a dawn, a decline and an affirmation. The end of Rome resembles two figures that mirror each other, now opposite, now closely connected, like two wrestlers who hold each other in an attempt to overpower each other. In this new, fascinating historical fresco, Corrado Augias presents us with Christian Rome, telling the stories of men, women, places and monuments that characterized the end of the old world, and announced the beginning and triumph of a new era. At the beginning of the fourth century the Roman Empire had approximately seventy million inhabitants, and it is estimated that less than ten percent of the population adhered to the Christian religion. A minority, but growing. Therefore, adopting that religion, admitting it among the permitted faiths and declaring itself a member was, on the part of Constantine, a gesture of immense audacity. After having annihilated the penultimate of his competitors, Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius, in the famous battle of the Milvian Bridge, Constantine triumphantly entered Rome along the entire length of the Via Lata (now Via del Corso)

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