Alaric the Goth. By Douglas Boin.W.W. Norton; 272 pages; $26.95 and £19.99. THE SMOKE began to rise above the orange-tiled roofs of the eternal city on August 24th 410AD. The watchmen had not seen the ...
In the late 4th and early 5th centuries, the Goths pressured by the Huns entered Roman territories, culminating in the catastrophic Battle of Adrianople in 378 CE, where they decimated a Roman army ...
The modern world has never seen more than a faded hint of the magnificent frescoes executed by Raphael for the Vatican Palace’s second-floor loggia. For three centuries after they were painted, the ...
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