It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. 1785-1824 - Page 194edited by - 1910Full view - About this book
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 484 pages
...October 15th, 1764, and is immortalised in his own picturesque words: "As I sat musing/' he says, "amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars...writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." But so gigantic a task was not to be executed, or even begun, without immense preparatory... | |
| Helen Bevington - 1991 - 234 pages
...five hundred churches ringing in unison when a new pope was declared; Gibbon's history that began when "the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started in my mind." "Come to Rome," Shelley said, whose ashes are buried in the Protestant Cemetery. Halfway... | |
| Walter Laqueur - 1996 - 244 pages
...recalls how one day in October 1764 as he was musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of Rome first started to his mind. There was a grandeur to the Capitoline Hill and the Forum Romanum even... | |
| Robert Spoo - 1994 - 208 pages
...ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted fryars were singing Vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the City first started to my mind.3 Gibbon speaks of an ironic overlap of the past and the present, of a communion in the... | |
| John Varriano - 1995 - 304 pages
...ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started in my mind'/' Many are those of lesser talent and lesser ambition in whom Rome ignited a similar spark.... | |
| Henry Adams - 1995 - 628 pages
...more fascinating. Probably it was more vital in May, 1860, than it had been in October, 1764, when the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first ROME started to the mind of Gibbon, 'in the close of the evening, as I sat musing in the Church of... | |
| Luigi Barzini - 1996 - 388 pages
...remembered Gibbon, 'while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.' Only dead Italians were deemed worthy of attention, the longer dead the more worthy. The... | |
| Manfred Pfister - 1996 - 578 pages
...ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire;... | |
| Catharine Edwards - 1996 - 168 pages
...ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars were singing Vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.'1 Why should inspiration come to Gibbon on the Capitol? This was an area of Rome where,... | |
| Robert Kanigel - 1998 - 266 pages
...ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." When the great project was finished twenty-four years later, it encompassed the whole... | |
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