Hutton, Edward, 1875- · London, J.M. Dent; New York, E.P. Dutton · leaf 63
lifetime of Placidia Italy was freefrom foreign invasion, the decay of the western empire, ofwhat had been the western empire, was by no means arrested;on the contrary, Britain, Gaul, Spain, and Africa were finallylost. Two appalling catastrophes mark her reign, the Vandalinvasion of the province… … »^*«-*i.D S«J«» Thk Apse of S. Giovanni Evaxcelista 44 RAVENNA been his contemporary, might truly have been called the lastof the Romans. Their simultaneous appearance, however,finally destroyed all hope of an immediate resurrection ofciviHsation in the West. For Boniface, whose one greatobject was…
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