Darkness and Dawn

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Hubert Robert, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Edvard Munch. Rome under Nero - the fire, the persecution, Seneca and Saint Paul - by a headmaster and later dean of Canterbury who wrote the best-selling religious fiction of his day. Farrar knew his Tacitus and does not spare the emperor. This edition is bound with a gallery of 58 plates, among them paintings by Edvard Munch, Andrea Mantegna and Andrea Locatelli, dating from 1450 to 1910.