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A hardcover edition in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked; boards are unmarked and free of creasing. Dust jacket is in good condition. A former library book, though the binding remains tight and solid throughout, with no looseness to the text block. One page preceding the title page has been removed, believed to be a map. First English edition, published by Collins, London, 1962; translated from Montanelli's original Italian, Storia di Roma (1957), the prologue to his later multi-volume Storia d'Italia. Indro Montanelli, a celebrated, award-winning Italian journalist and historian, named among the World Press Freedom Heroes for his decades of work at Corriere della Sera and as founder of il Giornale, brings his distinctive narrative style, known for wit, anecdote, and readability over academic formality, to this account of Rome's first thousand years, from its legendary founding to the fall of the Western Empire. Translated into English by Arthur Oliver.