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The group presents "The barbarians who took Rome. The sack of 410"

Acqua Marcia The group presents "The barbarians who took Rome. The sack of 410" This year, the Company

Acqua Pia Antica Marcia decided to pursue the cultural project started three years is making a Christmas gift for literary nature. The new book entitled "The Barbarians who took Rome. The bag of 410 "was presented Friday, Dec. 3 Villa Malta in Rome, in the presence of Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo , President of the Governorate of Vatican City, of the culture of the City of Rome Umberto Croppi , President of the Company Acqua Pia Antica Marcia Francesco Caltagirone Bellavista , the dignitaries of the Sovereign Order of Malta , authors and professors Umberto Roberto and Rino Avesani .
Using the sixteenth centenary of the year 2010 capture of Rome by the Visigoths, the two authors Gianluca and Massimiliano Ghilardi Pilar, one medievalist historian and researcher at the Institute for Patristic Augustinianum (Pontifical Lateran University), the other an archaeologist and associate director of tardoantichista ' National Institute of Roman Studies, have focused their research on the fall of the Eternal City before the hordes of Alaric, the event led to a direct impact on the urban fabric, buildings, monuments, giving students a sense of historical change and of ' beginning of a new historical path, all to understand and to tell.
"With the publishing projects of recent years we have worked in the recovery of historical memory linked to the city of Rome and the characters that made it great over the centuries, "said Francesco Caltagirone Bellavista, president of Gruppo Acqua Marcia. "We wanted to renew our connection with the publication of a volume dedicated to a historic event that has inexorably changed the destiny of our beloved city and our past: the arrival of the Visigoths under Alaric in Italy and the sack of Rome in 410" .
"It must be very grateful to Professors Pilar Gianluca and Massimiliano Ghilardi for this study, which helps us to understand the origin and scope of the event for our civilization" adds Cardinal Lajolo "deep appreciation also goes to the Company Acqua Pia Antica Marcia, historical memory of Rome, which has supported the publishing initiative."