Nero - Alberto Angela - HarperCollins Italia

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The day after the Great Fire, Rome offers a spectacle of desolation and destruction. Everything is unrecognizable: the collapsed buildings have become large piles of rubble, the streets and alleys are now depressions, while an acrid burning smell hangs in the air. Many have lost everything they had and camps for displaced people become their only home. Everyone looks to the emperor to start again, awaits his guidance to move towards the future. But he is neither a conqueror of lands like Caesar, nor a builder of empires like Augustus. From the ashes of Rome, Nero will emerge as the Joker of History... Intertwining historical sources, archaeological data and modern studies, Alberto Angela reconstructs his life and investigates his different human aspects, made up of weaknesses, passions and madness. What emerges is the figure of a multifaceted artist (singer, musician, poet and actor), a daring charioteer, a passionate lover, a refined art collector... But at the same time a skilled negotiator, a cynical murderer and a ferocious repressor, as demonstrated by the persecution of Christians blamed for having caused the Great Fire, the common thread of this Nero Trilogy. The story will allow us to understand how a single moment from the past has shaped our current world. If that night of July 18, 64 AD, a lit lamp had not fallen into a warehouse under the arches of the Circus Maximus, what would have been written in the history books today? Without the resulting crucifixion of Saint Peter, what would have been the path of Christianity? Would there be the Colosseum and all the wonderful monuments that we can still visit today in today's Rome? A meticulous, original and fascinating investigation that offers a new interpretation of Nero, his empire and what he left us as a legacy. Inside the volume there is an unpublished illustration created by Milo Manara, who wanted to represent Nero following the words of Alberto Angela.

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Book in Italian

The day after the Great Fire, Rome offers a spectacle of desolation and destruction. Everything is unrecognizable: the collapsed buildings have become large piles of rubble, the streets and alleys are now depressions, while an acrid burning smell hangs in the air. Many have lost everything they had and camps for displaced people become their only home. Everyone looks to the emperor to start again, awaits his guidance to move towards the future. But he is neither a conqueror of lands like Caesar, nor a builder of empires like Augustus. From the ashes of Rome, Nero will emerge as the Joker of History... Intertwining historical sources, archaeological data and modern studies, Alberto Angela reconstructs his life and investigates his different human aspects, made up of weaknesses, passions and madness. What emerges is the figure of a multifaceted artist (singer, musician, poet and actor), a daring charioteer, a passionate lover, a refined art collector... But at the same time a skilled negotiator, a cynical murderer and a ferocious repressor, as demonstrated by the persecution of Christians blamed for having caused the Great Fire, the common thread of this Nero Trilogy. The story will allow us to understand how a single moment from the past has shaped our current world. If that night of July 18, 64 AD, a lit lamp had not fallen into a warehouse under the arches of the Circus Maximus, what would have been written in the history books today? Without the resulting crucifixion of Saint Peter, what would have been the path of Christianity? Would there be the Colosseum and all the wonderful monuments that we can still visit today in today's Rome? A meticulous, original and fascinating investigation that offers a new interpretation of Nero, his empire and what he left us as a legacy. Inside the volume there is an unpublished illustration created by Milo Manara, who wanted to represent Nero following the words of Alberto Angela.

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