Project Gutenberg 2025-08-12 Public domain in the USA. 243 Gregorovius, Ferdinand 1821 1891 Gregorovius, Ferdinando Gregorovius, Ferdinand Adolf Manzato, Renato Storia della città di Roma nel medio evo, vol. 2/8 : $b dal secolo V al XVI $aVenezia :$bAntonelli, $c1872, copyright 1876. Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This transcription was produced from images generously made available by Bayerische Staatsbibliothek / Bavarian State Library.) "Storia della città di Roma nel medio evo, vol. 2/8 : dal secolo V al XVI" by Ferdinando Gregorovius is a historical account written in the late 19th century. It traces Rome’s transformation in the early Middle Ages, from the collapse of the ancient civic order to the ascendancy of the papacy, the spread of monasticism, and the city’s struggles between Byzantine authority and Lombard pressure. Figures such as Benedict of Nursia and Gregory the Great exemplify how religious institutions replaced imperial structures and reshaped urban life. Expect a richly detailed political, ecclesiastical, and urban narrative rather than character-driven storytelling. The opening of this volume paints a stark tableau of a ruined Rome—temples crumbling, forums silent, baths stripped—while the Church rises as the city’s only vigilant organizer and protector behind Aurelian’s walls. It recounts Benedict’s retreat to Subiaco, the founding of Monte Cassino atop a former pagan site, the crafting of his Rule, and the swift spread of monastic life (from Cassiodorus’s Vivarium to Roman convents fostered by patrician women), culminating in Benedictines sheltered at the Lateran after the Lombards raze Monte Cassino. The narrative then follows the Lombard advance, the embattled pontificates of Benedict I and Pelagius II, and appeals to Constantinople, with Gregory dispatched as apocrisiarius. Flood and plague ravage the city; Pelagius dies, and the rebuilding of San Lorenzo marks the era’s piety amid disaster. Gregory’s election ushers in penitential processions and the legend of the archangel sheathing his sword atop Hadrian’s mausoleum to end the pestilence. Finally, his first sermons read like a funeral oration over Rome as Agilulf and Ariulf press the siege, while he buys off the enemy, clashes diplomatically with the exarch and emperor, and the text sketches the fragile civic framework—prefect, magister militum, and the near-silence surrounding a vanished Senate. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20200724081902gregoroviu 1872 IT Reading ease score: 39.3 (College-level). Difficult to read. it Rome (Italy) -- History DG Text Category: History - European Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages Category: History - Religious 1254757 2025-09-30T08:43:51.442126 text/html 1213502 2025-08-12T12:25:59 text/html 744780 2025-09-30T08:44:09.272091 application/epub+zip 744651 2025-09-30T08:43:54.965106 application/epub+zip 587332 2025-09-30T08:43:52.979120 application/epub+zip 1443535 2025-09-30T08:44:18.621999 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1379080 2025-09-30T08:44:07.602012 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1024859 2025-09-30T08:43:48.701181 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1004767 2025-08-12T12:25:59 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17371 2025-09-30T08:44:18.783020 application/rdf+xml 14413 2025-09-30T08:43:53.361107 image/jpeg 2475 2025-09-30T08:43:53.171121 image/jpeg 1183067 2025-09-30T08:43:51.546115 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 en.wikipedia de.wikipedia