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large off~white nubbly cloth & ornately gilt decorative hardbound folio. very large ("coffee table" size book), international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. a bit of sun yellowing along the bottom of covers. edges clean. contents free of all markings. partially price clipped (can still see $) dustwrapper in vg cond. 2" tear front top, missing 1x3" piece along rear bottom, rubbed & chipped along top & spine edges (see photos). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first english edition. first printing ( FPu1962 & nap). first published in the French language as Histoire De Rome Et Des Romains De Romulus A Jean XXIII (1960.(Please Note: book is larger than the scanner, so the photos are a little cropped.) color illustrated endpapers. 288p. glossy pages throughout. list of illustrations. every page illustrated. many full page glossy full color plates. large folding b&w map keyed map of rome today with index of monuments and places illustrated~ in mint cond.~ laid in. ancient history. history of architecture. art history. archaeology. religion. history of religion. roman catholicism. vatican. medieval history. roman empire. world war i. world war ii. ~ Prepared by a board of experts under the supervision of Robert Laffont ~Lavishly illustrated with seven hundred photographs and thirty~two full color plates, this comprehensive and beautiful volume shows the great panorama of Roman history. The politics, religions, and arts of the people of Rome were and are so varied that they have no rivals in any other city in the world. There is the legendary Rome of Romulus and that of the Republic, the Rome of Brutus, and the city as it was under Caesar and the emperors. A HISTORY OF ROME AND THE ROMANS begins with these exciting early days and goes on to show us the Catacombs, the life of the early Christians, the Middle Ages as they were in Italy~with feudal barons, the craftsmen who made the byzantine mozaics, the emperors from Germany, and the saints who founded religious orders. Then comes Renaissance Rome in the time of the Borgias, when Bramante, Raphael and Michelangelo achieved immortality for their art ~ Great figures move with the centuries across these pages until we come to the city in the days when Napoleon contended with Pius VII and Garibaldi with Pius IX. Here is Rome under Mussolini, under Pius II, and Rome during the 1960 Olympics. A HISTORY OF ROME AND THE ROMANS is a book that presents the spectacle of history~ancient and modem~in all its panoply, and the spectacle is a dramatic one in which the reality rivals legend and often surpasses it.
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