by Edward Gibbon · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780146001710
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«Reflections on the Fall of Rome» is the historical essay by Edward Gibbon, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (96 pages, in English).
The text comes from volumes I and II of «The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire», the historiographical work by Edward Gibbon. In these pages he examines the Antonine era and the causes and effects of the decline of the Roman Empire in the West, with the erudition that characterizes the author.
It belongs to the Penguin 60s Classics series, a collection of classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary.
For readers interested in the history of Rome and European historiography.
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.
