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From the international bestselling author and notable journalist Aldo Cazzullo comes a brilliantly researched and extremely accessible journey through the history and legacy of the Roman Empire. “The only way to narrate over a thousand years of history is to understand what it has left us. To tell the reasons, the things and the stories, thanks to which Roman civilization is alive”. From its mythical foundations and epic construction to its enduring historical and cultural impact, the ancient Roman Empire has long fascinated readers across the world. In The Neverending Empire esteemed Italian journalist Aldo Cazzullo describes an exciting new historical perspective: that the Roman Empire never fell. In fact, its influence reaches further and deeper than ever.Beginning with the origins of Rome, and the literary myth of Aeneas and Romulus, Cazzullo takes the reader on a page-turning voyage through ancient history, bringing to life the most captivating moments and characters of a dominant Empire: the republican age, with heroic men and women willing to die for their country. The adventure of coup plotters like Catiline and revolutionaries like Spartacus, the slave who inspired rebels of every age. The extraordinary stories of Julius Caesar and Octavian Augustus, two of the greatest leaders to have lived.Cazzullo goes on to draw fascinating parallels between the ancient and modern world, revealing how Rome lives on, across every facet of life and society. The ancient Romans have inspired poets, and artists, from Dante to Hollywood. They have dictated the rules of war, architecture, language and law. They have inspired America’s democratic influence and the digital revolution led by Mark Zuckerberg, a great admirer of Emperor Augustus: the first man to lead a multi-ethnic community of people who didn’t know each other but shared language, images and culture.From the Napoleonic to the British regimes, the ideas and philosophies of ancient Rome have been much imitated, but never surpassed. This is the remarkable story of an enduring Empire. An Empire that never died. An Empire that lives on, forever.

From the international bestselling author and notable journalist Aldo Cazzullo comes a brilliantly researched and extremely accessible journey through the history and legacy of the Roman Empire. “The only way to narrate over a thousand years of history is to understand what it has left us. To tell the reasons, the things and the stories, thanks to which Roman civilization is alive”. From its mythical foundations and epic construction to its enduring historical and cultural impact, the ancient Roman Empire has long fascinated readers across the world. In The Neverending Empire esteemed Italian journalist Aldo Cazzullo describes an exciting new historical perspective: that the Roman Empire never fell. In fact, its influence reaches further and deeper than ever.Beginning with the origins of Rome, and the literary myth of Aeneas and Romulus, Cazzullo takes the reader on a page-turning voyage through ancient history, bringing to life the most captivating moments and characters of a dominant Empire: the republican age, with heroic men and women willing to die for their country. The adventure of coup plotters like Catiline and revolutionaries like Spartacus, the slave who inspired rebels of every age. The extraordinary stories of Julius Caesar and Octavian Augustus, two of the greatest leaders to have lived.Cazzullo goes on to draw fascinating parallels between the ancient and modern world, revealing how Rome lives on, across every facet of life and society. The ancient Romans have inspired poets, and artists, from Dante to Hollywood. They have dictated the rules of war, architecture, language and law. They have inspired America’s democratic influence and the digital revolution led by Mark Zuckerberg, a great admirer of Emperor Augustus: the first man to lead a multi-ethnic community of people who didn’t know each other but shared language, images and culture.From the Napoleonic to the British regimes, the ideas and philosophies of ancient Rome have been much imitated, but never surpassed. This is the remarkable story of an enduring Empire. An Empire that never died. An Empire that lives on, forever.

From the international bestselling author and notable journalist Aldo Cazzullo comes a brilliantly researched and extremely accessible journey through the history and legacy of the Roman Empire. “The only way to narrate over a thousand years of history is to understand what it has left us. To tell the reasons, the things and the stories, thanks to which Roman civilization is alive”. From its mythical foundations and epic construction to its enduring historical and cultural impact, the ancient Roman Empire has long fascinated readers across the world. In The Neverending Empire esteemed Italian journalist Aldo Cazzullo describes an exciting new historical perspective: that the Roman Empire never fell. In fact, its influence reaches further and deeper than ever.Beginning with the origins of Rome, and the literary myth of Aeneas and Romulus, Cazzullo takes the reader on a page-turning voyage through ancient history, bringing to life the most captivating moments and characters of a dominant Empire: the republican age, with heroic men and women willing to die for their country. The adventure of coup plotters like Catiline and revolutionaries like Spartacus, the slave who inspired rebels of every age. The extraordinary stories of Julius Caesar and Octavian Augustus, two of the greatest leaders to have lived.Cazzullo goes on to draw fascinating parallels between the ancient and modern world, revealing how Rome lives on, across every facet of life and society. The ancient Romans have inspired poets, and artists, from Dante to Hollywood. They have dictated the rules of war, architecture, language and law. They have inspired America’s democratic influence and the digital revolution led by Mark Zuckerberg, a great admirer of Emperor Augustus: the first man to lead a multi-ethnic community of people who didn’t know each other but shared language, images and culture.From the Napoleonic to the British regimes, the ideas and philosophies of ancient Rome have been much imitated, but never surpassed. This is the remarkable story of an enduring Empire. An Empire that never died. An Empire that lives on, forever.

From the international bestselling author and notable journalist Aldo Cazzullo comes a brilliantly researched and extremely accessible journey through the history and legacy of the Roman Empire.“The only way to narrate over a thousand years of history is to understand what it has left us. To tell the reasons, the things and the stories, thanks to which Roman civilization is alive”.From its mythical foundations and epic construction to its enduring historical and cultural impact, the ancient Roman Empire has long fascinated readers across the world. In The Neverending Empire esteemed Italian journalist Aldo Cazzullo describes an exciting new historical perspective: that the Roman Empire never fell. In fact, its influence reaches further and deeper than ever.Beginning with the origins of Rome, and the literary myth of Aeneas and Romulus, Cazzullo takes the reader on a page-turning voyage through ancient history, bringing to life the most captivating moments and characters of a dominant Empire: the republican age, with heroic men and women willing to die for their country. The adventure of coup plotters like Catiline and revolutionaries like Spartacus, the slave who inspired rebels of every age. The extraordinary stories of Julius Caesar and Octavian Augustus, two of the greatest leaders to have lived.Cazzullo goes on to draw fascinating parallels between the ancient and modern world, revealing how Rome lives on, across every facet of life and society. The ancient Romans have inspired poets, and artists, from Dante to Hollywood. They have dictated the rules of war, architecture, language and law. They have inspired America’s democratic influence and the digital revolution led by Mark Zuckerberg, a great admirer of Emperor Augustus: the first man to lead a multi-ethnic community of people who didn’t know each other but shared language, images and culture.From the Napoleonic to the British regimes, the ideas and philosophies of ancient Rome have been much imitated, but never surpassed. This is the remarkable story of an enduring Empire. An Empire that never died. An Empire that lives on, forever.

"In his joyful new book, Aldo Cazzullo invites us, through sparkling prose, to dive into some of the greatest stories ever told.”—James Martin, SJ, New York Times bestselling author of Work in Progress and Learning to PrayA #1 bestselling sensation in ItalyAs a way of connecting with his dying father, Aldo Cazzullo picks up the Bible and rediscovers an illuminating book that "speaks of us," and whose legacy of storytelling formed our modern world.Until a few generations ago, people of the Western world believed they lived under the watchful eye of God. His existence was as certain as that of the rising sun, and quoting passages and verse from the Bible was common. But that familiarity with the Bible is no longer a mainstay of contemporary life. For Aldo Cazzullo, it isn’t until he finds himself sitting by his dying father’s bed that he revisits the Bible, connecting with both a beloved believer and the text itself. While recognizing its spiritual and religious value, above all he is astounded by the extraordinary power of its storytelling.Beginning with the Creation, Cazzullo takes us through key stories of the Old Testament, all the while them for their beauty, insights, and mysteries:The tale of Joseph, a marvelous bildungsroman and love story, in which God famously speaks only through the veil of dreamsThe descendants of Jesse, the first being David, a king who played the lyre player and stood against the most fearsome of the Philistine's troops Goliath, and the last, Jesus.Those of its great women—including Judith, Jael, and Esther, who, by killing an evil man or by having him killed, saved millions of just peopleThe triumphant ode to love that is the Song of SolomonNever failing to connect these stories to the present day and taking readers on an illuminating journey to the roots of Western culture and identity, The God of Our Fathers reveals the Bible to be a stunning literary achievement that contains the full breadth of the human experience.Translated from the Italian by Sylvia Notini

El Dios de nuestros padres es un libro apasionante y evocador que nos lleva a las raíces de nuestra cultura y nuestras familias.Nuestros padres estaban convencidos de que vivían bajo la mirada de Dios. Su existencia era tan cierta como la salida y la puesta del sol. Hoy hemos dejado de creerlo, incluso de pensar en ello. Y ya nadie lee la Biblia. En cambio, se trata de un libro soberbio que bien puede leerse como una gran novela.Aldo Cazzullo, uno de los grandes autores italianos contemporáneos, repasa con precisión y extraordinaria maestría lo que denomina como «la autobiografía de Dios». Desde la Creación, Adán y Eva, pasando por la historia de Jacob, Moisés o Judit, hasta la gran esperanza de la resurrección y de un salvador que viene a redimir a la humanidad para los cristianos, Jesús.Una obra magna que evoca historias de fascinación milenaria y regala al lector un relato que recorre la Biblia como nunca antes se había hecho.«Las páginas de la Biblia no son solo los cimientos de nuestra fe, son el origen de nuestra cultura. Aquel que quiera remontarse a las raíces de la identidaditaliana, cristiana, occidental, en un momento u otro se topará con la Biblia. Y desde allí deberá empezar el recorrido […].Emprendamos entonces este viaje juntos para descubrir, o volver a descubrir, la Biblia. Pero no debemos empezar desde el final, sino desde el principio. Cuando el mundo aún no existía y solo había el caos, sobre el cual aleteaba el espíritu de Dios.Todo está a punto de nacer. Dios está a punto de hablar. Escuchémoslo».

Aldo Cazzullo reconstruye la conmovedora vida del santo con pulso narrativo y mirada contemporánea. Recorre los ideales caballerescos de su juventud, la dramática ruptura con su padre y el inolvidable despojo en la plaza de Asís. Revive el pacto con el papa y el que establece con santa Clara; se adentra en el misterio de los estigmas, y desvela la destrucción de sus primeras biografías para que prevaleciera la voz oficial, empeñada en alejarlo de la tierra y relegarlo al cielo.Pero Francisco no pertenece solo al pasado. Hoy sigue vivo: en la memoria de los santos franciscanos, desde Antonio de Padua hasta el padre Pío; en nuestra vida cotidiana, desde el cine hasta los scouts, desde el registro civil (este libro está dedicado a todos los Franciscos y las Franciscas) hasta el arte. Y su enseñanza —el respeto por la creación, el amor por todos los seres y el rechazo de las desigualdades— resuena con una fuerza renovada, más actual y necesaria que nunca.

Todos los imperios de la historia se han presentado como herederos de los antiguos romanos: el Imperio romano de Oriente, el Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico de Carlomagno, Moscú, «la tercera Roma», los imperios napoleónico y británico, los regímenes fascista y nazi, el imperio americano o el virtual de Mark Zuckerberg, un gran admirador de Augusto.Este libro explica la legendaria fundación de Roma, desde el mito literario de Eneas y de Rómulo, hasta la cristianización del imperio, pasando por la era republicana, la extraordina- ria historia de Julio César y de Octavio Augusto o la época de Constantino.A través de un relato repleto de detalles y de datos curiosos, al alcance de cualquier lector, Aldo Cazzullo reconstruye el mito de Roma a partir de los personajes y las historias hasta llegar a las ideas y a los símbolos. Un recorrido apasionante y único por una de las etapas más decisivas de nuestro mundo.Prólogo de JAVIER CERCAS