Ravenna, a Study. Edward Hutton

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       Edward Hutton

      Ravenna, a Study

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066244323

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       IX

       X

       XI

       XII

       XIII

       XIV

       XV

       XVI

       XVII

       XVIII

       XIX

       XX

PREFACE

       Table of Contents

      My intention in writing this book has been to demonstrate the unique importance of Ravenna in the history of Italy and of Europe, especially during the Dark Age from the time of Alaric's first descent into the Cisalpine plain to the coming of Charlemagne. That importance, as it seems to me, has been wholly or almost wholly misunderstood, and certainly, as I understand it, has never been explained. In this book, which is offered to the public not without a keen sense of its inadequacy, I have tried to show in as clear a manner as was at my command, what Ravenna really was in the political geography of the empire, and to explain the part that position allowed her to play in the great tragedy of the decline and fall of the Roman administration. If I have succeeded in this I am amply repaid for all the labour the book has cost me.

      The principal sources, both ancient and modern, which I have consulted in the preparation of this volume have been cited, but I must here acknowledge the special debt I owe to the late Dr. Hodgkin, to Professor Diehl, to Dr. Corrado Ricci, and to the many contributors to the various Italian Bollettini which I have ransacked.

      E.H.

      March 1913.

      CHAP.

      I. THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL POSITION OF RAVENNA

      II. JULIUS CAESAR IN RAVENNA

      III. RAVENNA IN THE TIME OF THE EMPIRE

      IV. THE RETREAT UPON RAVENNA Honorius and Galla Placidia

      V. THE FALL OF THE EMPIRE IN THE WEST

      VI. THEODORIC

      VII. THE RECONQUEST Vitiges, Belisarius, Totila, Narses

      VIII. MODICA QUIES The Pragmatic Sanction and the Settlement of Italy

      IX. THE CITADEL OF THE EMPIRE IN ITALY The Lombard Invasion

      X. THE PAPAL STATE Pepin and Charlemagne

      XI. THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF THE FIFTH CENTURY The Cathedral, Baptistery,

       Arcivescovado, S. Agata, S. Pietro Maggiore, S. Giovanni Evangelista, S.

       Giovanni Battista, and the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia

      XII. THE ARIAN CHURCHES OF THE SIXTH CENTURY The Palace of Theodoric,

       S. Apollinare Nuovo, S. Spirito, S. Maria in Cosmedin, the Mausoleum of

       Theodoric

      XII. THE BYZANTINE CHURCHES S. Vitale and S. Apollinare in Classe

      XIV. RAVENNA IN THE MIDDLE AGE

      XV. DANTE IN RAVENNA

      XVI. MEDIAEVAL RAVENNA The Churches

      XVII. RAVENNA IN THE RENAISSANCE The Battle of 1512

      XVIII. RENAISSANCE RAVENNA Churches and Palaces

      XIX. THE GALLERY AND THE MUSEUM

      XX. THE PINETA

      COLOURED PLATES

      S. APOLLINARE NUOVO

      S. AGATA

      THE MAUSOLEUM OF THEODORIC

      S. VITALE: THE GALLERY

      S. GIOVANNI EVANGELISTA

      THE MAUSOLEUM OF GALLA PLACIDIA

      S. VITALE: THE PRESBYTERY

      S. GIOVANNI BATTISTA

      S. MARIA IN PORTO

      PORTA SERRATA

      LINE DRAWINGS

      SKETCH MAP

      SKETCH MAP

      SKETCH MAP

      GREEK RELIEF FROM A TEMPLE OF NEPTUNE

      SARCOPHAGUS OF THE EMPEROR HONORIUS

      THE APSE OF S. GIOVANNI EVANGELISTA

      THE MAUSOLEUM OF GALLA PLACIDIA

      CAPITAL FROM THE COLONNADE IN PIAZZA MAGGIORE

      S. APOLLINARE IN CLASSE

      CAPITAL FROM S. VITALE

      CAPITAL FROM SANTO SPIRITO

      SKETCH MAP

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