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In this rich history of Italy's Tiber River, Bruce Ware Allen charts the main currents, mythic headwaters, and hidden tributaries of one of the world's most ren

"The first English translation of Luis Gómez's Latin treatise (1531) on the flooding of the Tiber River, including a history of the river and its floods and a

Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexit

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