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“The narrative bursts its banks, the historian despairs and ‘meanwhile’ becomes the adverb of first resort.”

What a great way of describing the events of 1848-1849 hihi

Really interested in the Risorgimento and the unification of Italy! Does any of my dear (Italian?) friends have any book recs about this?

Liking this book so far! But man, this book will take a while to finish

Great to be reading history again!!! But I have to admit that the topics of this book are quite complex for me

Can you guys actually believe I am reading fiction

Reading a used book with someone else’s notes in it is like watching a movie with someone who has already seen it and can’t shut up throughout the whole thing. Super annoying! Shut up!!!!

Hope to finish this soon! I have the feeling a fiction book is coming up next 😳😳

I have to admit that I’m not a big fan of ecclesiastical history

I really hope I finish this book this year, I just barely read it because it’s too heavy and big to be taking with me wherever I go

Read this at the hospital before my wisdom tooth got removed. Felt like I had to ask Marcus Aurelius for support haha, luckily it wasn’t as bad as I expected!

Today in the bookstore someone bought a book I recommended to them for the first time! Yippeeeeee

Ravenna was a beautiful city and I bought this book there! My phone was basically dead so I had no choice to start reading this in the train to Bologna

Lol yesterday I was talking about the fact that I am doing modern Greek on Duolingo and that I want to read all different types of fiction to see what I like (even Colleen Hoover). Guess what? Today in the bookstore some customer gifted us a Greek Colleen Hoover book, what are the chances! Time to seriously start learning Greek I guess

Fausto reading fiction?!? Crazy! But I hate to admit that I am also not really feeing this one, short stories are not for me I think

Lol I know this is such a Fausto thing to say, but I love to see instances of European unity and solidarity in history <3

Odysseus Androutsos? Alexandros Mavrokordatos?? The Greeks were really cooking when they made their language and their names. So cool haha

Crazy that the population of Chios is still only half as large today as it was before the massacre by the Ottomans

I love Greece but I’ve never been there! If I don’t go there by the end of next year I will be sad

Kinda sad to read about the last decades of the empire :( I know what’s coming and I don’t like it

Read on my flights to the USA, but I could have read so much more if I wasn’t so tired :(

The Fourth Crusade is about to start😭😭 I don’t think that I have the strength to read this chapter😭😭

It’s so interesting to read about the Crusades from the Eastern Roman perspective! Damn untrustworthy barbarians!!

Funny how in secondary school I was ‘Crusades guy’, but now I’m Roman empire man😎

Such a good book! Next chapter is about Basil the Bulgar-Slayer! What a cool epithet!!!!

Crazy that the Frankish Charlemagne got crowned ””””Emperor of the Romans”””” because the ACTUAL ruler of the Roman Empire was a WOMAN and the pope didn’t like that.

Also, I recently experienced reading while a cat sits on my lap for the first time in my life and it’s great!

Holy molium! This chapter is soooo good! Heraclius might be one of my new favourite emperors of all time, what a legend!!

Ariadne is such a pretty name!

Wooooo! Finally reading about the “Byzantine” empire! Also, I am really doing great with my reading recently

Alexander led a military campaign and ruled as the regent of Macedonia when he was just 16! 16!! Guys I feel like I am not on schedule

Reading my yearly biography of Alexander the Great! This is going to be my fourth one :)

The Ancient Greeks are so funny and dramatic sometimes haha