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Great imposture of history

Great imposture of history


Author: Claude Mosse
Publisher: Parallel 45
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It is a welcome book, because Claude Mosse, appealing to the storyteller and the rigor of art history, repeats some myths of our history (Nero, Joan of Arc, Christopher Columbus, Cleopatra, Casanova, Lucretia Borgia) and replaces new files transmitted with piety of legend with facts and figures in the context of their time. Following this approach, accomplished with passion and honesty, the reader can see pitted with a few surprises: Nero is rehabilitated, Columbus is "unmasked" Joan of Arc is treated bluntly and seems less impressive with its imperfections, absolutely human after all. Continuing his periplul history, the author is wondering what to be associated with crimes of Lucretia Borgia clan or when, in fact, she has devoted a good part of life to care for the poor and those suffering with a holy worthy account. Cleopatra, a seductive love was not just a cynical prostitute driven only by the desire to dominate Rome and Athens? William Tell was not just a figure of legend who founded the Swiss identity? Does the United States of America are really a democracy?
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