The Roman Empire did not meet its end when barbarians sackedthe City of Seven Hills, but rather a thousand years later with thefall of Constantinople, capital of the surviving Eastern Empire.The Ottoman Turks who conquered the city aslo known to us asByzantium would force a tense centruy of conflict in theMediterranean culminating in the famous Battle of Lepanto. Thefirst book in a triptych depicting this monumental confrontationbetween a Muslim empire and Christendom, The Fall of Constantinoplebrilliantly captures a defning moment in the two creeds' historytoo often eclipsed by the Crusades.
【作者简介】
Nanami Shiono is the preeminent author of popular history inJapanese today. In survey after survey, the most powerful Japanesepoliticians and industrialists (many of whom she counts as personalfriends) name her as their favorite author, and she enjoys a degreeof influence in public discourse that few authors anywhere couldhope to match. In 1970, the same year she won the first of manyliterary awards for her early masterpiece Cesare Borgia, or ElegantCruelty, she moved permanently to her adopted home of Italy.Although she first rose to prominence as an author of works set inRenaissance Italy, her expertise has widened to include theMediterranean as a whole, as well as ancient Rome (which she treatsin her bestselling fifteen-volume history, The Tale of the Romans).The East Mediterranean Trilogy, completed in 1987, remains amongher most enduringly popular works. The first volume, The Fall ofConstantinople, is available from Vertical, as well as The Siege ofRhodes and the last volume, The Battle of Lepanto.
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