Gibbon, Edward

1. An eighteenth-century British historian whose masterpiece The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was conceived during a tour of Italy while, as Gibbon put it, he “sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol.” Although largely superseded by later scholarship, his work remains a classic of English historical literature.

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Gibbon, Edward, quoted, upon rise of Christianity, 47, 54.

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Gibbon, Edward, 14, 17-20, 288-293.

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Gibbon, Edward, birth, parentage, and education, 122; his love for Mlle.

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Gibbon, Edward, 57; his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," 205.

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Gibbon, Edward, celibacy of, 158.

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