BARBARIAN AND BYZANTINE ITALY
Belisarius under the walls of Rome by AMELIANVS on DeviantArt. Part of Justinian’s wars of Reconquest. Italy about 575, Byzantine possessions in orange. The great Italian historiographer Arnaldo Momigliano recounted that, when he wanted to understand Italian history, he caught a train and went to Ravenna. ‘There, between the tomb of Theodoric and that of […]
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