Hutton, Edward, 1875-1969 / 2008-07-10 00:00:00

EBOOK RAVENNA, A STUDY ***


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RAVENNA
A STUDY
BY
EDWARD HUTTON
ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR AND LINE
BY
HARALD SUND
1913
TO MY FRIEND
ARTHUR SYMONS
IN AFFECTIONATE HOMAGE


PREFACE

My intention in writing this book has been to demonstrate the unique
importance of Ravenna in the history of Italy and of Europe, especially
during the Dark Age from the time of Alaric's first descent into the
Cisalpine plain to the coming of Charlemagne. That importance, as it seems
to me, has been wholly or almost wholly misunderstood, and certainly, as I
understand it, has never been explained. In this book, which is offered to
the public not without a keen sense of its inadequacy, I have tried to show
in as clear a manner as was at my command, what Ravenna really was in the
political geography of the empire, and to explain the part that position
allowed her to play in the great tragedy of the decline and fall of the
Roman administration. If I have succeeded in this I am amply repaid for all
the labour the book has cost me.
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