Monday, April 27, 2015

HistoryWatch: Gibbon's Birthday

On this day in 1737, Edward Gibbon, the greatest Enlightenment historian was born. Last year, I was in Rome on the 250th anniversary of the famous day he decided to write a history of the "decline and fall of the City."
You can find a brief celebratory piece marking that anniversary here

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