The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume III
Written by Edward Gibbon
Narrated by David Timson
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The work consists of 71 chapters, 2,136 paragraphs, some one million and a half words, and close to 8,000 footnotes: a magnum opus indeed by anyone’s standards.
Edward Gibbon
Nació en 1737, en Putney, hijo de un caballero de la gentry, y el único de ellos que sobreviviría a la infancia. Si bien su educación se vio interrumpida por su mala salud, llegó a poseer una amplia cultura. Un breve período como estudiante en el Magdalen College de Oxford finalizó cuando se convirtió al catolicismo y su padre lo envió a Suiza, concretamente a Lausana. Allí, mientras estudiaba griego y francés durante los siguientes cinco años, regresó a la Iglesia protestante. En 1761 publicó el Éssai sur l'etude de la Littérature, cuya versión inglesa apareció en 1764. Entretanto, sirvió como capitán en la milicia de Hampshire hasta 1763, fecha en que volvió al continente. En el año 1764, mientras se encontraba en Roma, cóncibió el proyecto de la obra que con los años se transformaría en la Historia de la decadencia y caída del Imperio Romano. Tras el fallecimiento de su padre, fijó su residencia en Londres y, en 1774, fue elegido diputado por ocho años, si bien nunca se le oyó hablar en el Parlamento. Al mismo tiempo, entró a formar parte de los círculos literarios de Londres. El primer volumen de su famosa Historia se publicó en 1776 y recibió numerosas alabanzas por su erudición y su estilo, si bien se le reprochó el enfoque dado a los primeros cristianos. Los volúmenes segundo y tercero aparecieron en 1781 y los tres últimos, escritos en Lausana, en 1788. Gibbon falleció mientras se encontraba visitando a su amigo lord Sheffield. En manos de este dejó seis borradores de sus memorias, redactados en diversos momentos de su vida. Después de un arduo trabajo de reconstrucción, en agosto de 1795, Sheffield envió a la imprenta dos volúmenes titulados Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, with Memoirs of His Life and Writings. Sin embargo, como se pudo constatar más adelante, llevado por la prudencia o delicadeza, lord Sheffield había omitido numerosos pasajes, que se restauraron a partir de 1894, conformando lo que ha llegado hasta nosotros con el título de Memorias de mi vida.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/52021-07-08 - Third book read! Masterpiece, no doubts. amazing how I found out that 2 books i read once, that I thought to be originals of some kind, were written - clearly - after the author read this 3rd book of Edward Gibbon! No doubts, a massive source of western inspiration!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excellent description of the historic fall of the Roman Empire which took Gibbon about 20 years to write.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This volume deals with the final persecutions of the Christians before they took over, as it were. The reason I give four rather than five stars is because of Gibbons rather loquacious language and his often blase generalizations, as clarified by the editor and others. We leave the Roman Empire, such as it was, with the Goths and Vandals, and the Huns schlepping all over the place. It is interesting what Gibbons is going to do with the other three volumes.