A Short History of Italy 476-1600 [Didactic Press Paperbacks]

A Short History of Italy 476-1600 [Didactic Press Paperbacks] PDF Author: Henry Sedgwick
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ISBN: 9781546604044
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Languages : en
Pages : 212

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In the year 476 an unfortunate young man, mocked with the great names of the founders of the City and of the Empire, Romulus Augustus, nicknamed Augustulus, was deposed from the throne of the C�sars by a Barbarian general in the Imperial service, and the Roman Empire in Italy came to its end. This act was but the outward sign that the power of Italy was utterly gone, and that in the West at least the Barbarians were indisputably conquerors in the long struggle which they had carried on for centuries with the Roman Empire...