Random Miracles

The construction of the Aqua Appio in Rome began in 312 B.C. It would take five hundred years and an unparalleled combination of imagination and engineering to complete the eleven-aqueduct water supply system that served Rome.

In addition to Random Miracles, Edward M. Cifelli has written biographies of poets David Humphreys and John Ciardi. He has also edited or compiled books of letters, poems, essays, and bibliography. He has written dozens of articles for magazines and professional journals, and hundreds of movie reviews for a daily newspaper, The New Jersey Herald. For the Signet Classics Editions, he has written introductions or afterwords to the three-volumes of Dante's Divine Comedy, John Milton's Paradise Lost, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline. He has also contributed to the American National Biography, American Writers Before 1800, and The Encyclopedia of New Jersey. He is a regular contributor as well to the St. Petersburg Times. He and his wife Roberta live in Dade City, Florida.