Raffaello Giovagnoli (1838–1915) was a renowned Italian writer and revolutionary, an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi, an admirer and diligent student of Walter Scott and Alexandre Dumas, and a brilliant expert on the history of Ancient Rome. His most popular novel, "Spartacus," tells the story of the legendary slave uprising led by a fearless fighter who dedicated all his strength and the passion of his soul to the struggle for freedom. It is a novel about beautiful and dramatic love, friendship and betrayal, the joy of the fight, and the bitterness of defeat. The wealth of detail and the brilliantly crafted composition of the novel allow the reader to immerse themselves in a long-vanished world where, despite the harsh customs, there was always room for the most noble and exalted aspirations of the human heart. The book presents the full text of the novel as published by "Academia" in 1936, featuring rare illustrations by the remarkable Soviet graphic artist Grigory Filippovsky.
Author: Raffaello Giovagnoli
Illustrations: Grigory Filippovsky
Translator: Lev Frenkel
Pages: 704 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 216x150x40 mm
Series: Foreign Literature. Big Books
