...my thoughts turned to another man sitting in 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.'"11 Do I need to inform you that I am quoting Edward Gibbon and referring to The Decline and...

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...at Rome, on the 15th October 1764', Gibbon writes, 'as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capital, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind'. 71 chapters, 2,136...

...first published in 1796, Edward Gibbon records this moment of epiphany: "It was at Rome, on the i5th of October. 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins...friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind" (Gibbon 85). 52....

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...provided a famous account of how the idea of the Roman history came: it was at Rome on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins...barefooted friars were singing Vespers in the temple of lupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the City first started to my mind.6 This...

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...1:255-58. 10. According to Gibbon's Memoirs, the Decline and Fall was first conceived "[o]n the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare footed friars were singing Vespers in the Temple of Jupiter" (see Decline and Fall, i: v). It...

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