# The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I

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- Book: [The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-gibbon/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire-volume-i) ([The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-gibbon/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire-volume-i.md))
- Authors: [Edward Gibbon](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-gibbon), [Daniel J. Boorstin](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-j-boorstin), [Gian Battista Piranesi](https://www.bookquiver.com/gian-battista-piranesi)
- Publisher: modern_library
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-06-7964-146-9
- Published: 2000-11-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline...