Books by Alessandro Barbero and Complete Book Reviews
Alessandro Barbero, Author, John Cullen, Translator . Walker $24.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1571-5
Medievalist Barbero (The Battle: A New History of Waterloo
) offers a revisionist history of the relatively obscure battle of Adrianople, arguing that the course of world history changed after the clash in 378, in the eastern Roman province of...
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Alessandro Barbero, Author, Allan Cameron, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Allan Cameron. Univ. of California $29.95 (426p) ISBN 978-0-520-23943-2
Charles the Great, crowned emperor by the pope on Christmas Day A.D. 800, has at least three claims to be the progenitor of Europe. First, as this excellent translation of Barbero's text indicates, he was the grand orchestrator of a...
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Alessandro Barbero, Author, John Cullen, Translator trans. from the Italian by J. Cullen. Walker $27 (340p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1453-4
This new and valuable history of the 1815 French defeat begins with a minimum of background for the non-Napoleonic student, but does superlatively well once Wellington and Napoleon have arrayed their armies for battle (and does not forget the...
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Alessandro Barbero, trans. from the Italian by Allan Cameron. Pegasus, $28.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-64313-913-5
Novelist and historian Barbero makes a tedious English-language debut with this account of Dante and the world in which he lived. Barbero first explores “the fundamental question of [Dante’s] social position” and leaps into his subject’s thoughts on
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