by Edward Gibbon · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140432176
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Edward Gibbon's 'Memoirs of My Life' offers an intimate and detailed account of the life of the renowned 18th-century British historian. From his childhood in London to his formative years at Oxford and his later residence in Lausanne, Gibbon narrates his experiences, intellectual passions, and the challenges he faced while writing his masterpiece, 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. This book offers a fascinating insight into the life and thought of one of the great scholars of the Enlightenment.
Edward Gibbon was a British essayist, historian and politician. His most important and influential work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, to critical and commercial success. It is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organised religion.
