by Valerio Massimo Manfredi · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804517740
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«L'ultima legione» is the historical novel by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, published by Mondadori in paperback (472 pages, in Italian).
In 476, Odoacer deposes the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, a thirteen-year-old boy, and confines him to Capri. A group of legionaries, along with the warrior Livia Prisca and the tutor Meridius Ambrosinus, attempts to free him and bring him to safety in a flight through a Europe devastated by barbarian invasions.
It belongs to the «I miti» collection by Mondadori (number 262). The work was originally published in 2002; this Italian edition is from 2003.
It will appeal to readers of historical fiction and adventure set in Ancient Rome and the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi is an Italian historian, writer, essayist, archaeologist and journalist.
