Project Gutenberg 2014-03-26 Public domain in the USA. 189 Gibbon, Edward 1737 1794 Bertolotti, Davide 1784 1860 Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 03 Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire Wikipedia page about this book: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storia_della_decadenza_e_caduta_dell%27Impero_romano Produced by Claudio Paganelli, Carlo Traverso, Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 03" by Edward Gibbon is a historical account written in the late 18th century. The work examines the decline and eventual fall of the Roman Empire, focusing particularly on the treatment of Christians during this tumultuous period. Gibbon's detailed narrative reveals the complex interaction between emerging Christian beliefs and the established Roman religious and political systems. The opening of this volume delves into the Roman government's conduct towards Christians from the reign of Nero to that of Constantine. Gibbon posits that, despite the moral rectitude and relative innocence of early Christians, they were subject to severe persecution. He explores the motivations behind this intolerance, suggesting that the Christians’ departure from traditional Roman religious practices and their claim to exclusive truth provoked governmental retaliation. The narrative outlines specific persecutions under various emperors, notably the brutal consequences faced by many Christians, who were often scapegoated for societal calamities, revealing the tensions between religious diversity and state control in ancient Rome. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/45217/45217-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 36.0 (College-level). Difficult to read. it Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527 DG Text IT Storia Category: History - Ancient Category: History - Religious 985623 2025-08-18T10:08:57.917635 text/html 943671 2024-10-24T04:08:33 text/html 496113 2025-08-18T10:09:10.611654 application/epub+zip 511003 2025-08-18T10:08:59.921658 application/epub+zip 453132 2025-08-18T10:08:58.926675 application/epub+zip 789494 2025-08-18T10:09:17.838111 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 726523 2025-08-18T10:09:09.196599 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 668612 2022-09-20T16:03:12.323869 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 848611 2025-08-18T10:08:56.537666 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 828691 2024-10-24T04:08:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17964 2025-08-18T10:09:17.987063 application/rdf+xml 16150 2025-08-18T10:08:59.084623 image/jpeg 2169 2025-08-18T10:08:59.006666 image/jpeg 467007 2025-08-18T10:08:57.996628 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog it.wikipedia it.wikipedia en.wikipedia