★Rights sold in China, France and Thailand!
★No. 1 on History category and No. 16 on Books category on the Italian Amazon bestseller list!
★The author, Alberto Angela, is Italy's most famous historical popularizer and a global ambassador for Italian art, history and culture.
★Based on archaeological data and ancient sources, and thanks to the contribution of historians and experts in meteorology and fire, for the first time Alberto Angela reconstructs a very important episode that changed the geography of Rome and our history forever: the Great Fire of 64 AD.
★A historical tale written with an incredible cinematic style capable of transporting the reader to the heart of one of the greatest tragedies of ancient times.

The series includes 3 titles:
1. The Last Day of Rome. Trip to the City of Nero Just Before the Great Fire
2. Hell Over Rome. The Great Fire that Destroyed the City of Nero
3. Nero. The rebirth of Rome and the decline of an emperor

Rome, Saturday 18 July 64 A.D. It is a warm summer night, the city is about to wake up with its streets teeming with activity and people, and it is completely unaware of what it is going to happen in a few hours...

Vindex and Saturninus, two vigiles on duty that day, will guide us through the streets to discover the daily life of one of the largest city of the time. During their patrol, the mighty veteran and the very young recruit will carry out a fundamental job for the order and safety of the population: to control and eliminate the many sources of danger in a city where fire is used for everything and tragedy is always around the corner…

Following them in their daily work, we discover a Rome largely made of wood, we enter the shops full of flammable goods near the streets, we hear the noises and smells that come from all over the city and we witness many scenes that are quite normal in a multicultural Rome that in many ways is the city we can see even today.

ALBERTO ANGELA, (Paris, 1962) is a palaeontologist, naturalist and writer. He studied at Harvard, Columbia and UCLA, and has carried out excavation and research activities for over ten years, participating in many international palaeoanthropology expeditions.

Among the leading experts in the field of scientific and historical dissemination, Alberto Angela is the author and host of several successful programs broadcast on Italian TV and abroad. As a freelance journalist, he has collaborated with prestigious newspapers and periodicals and he is the author of numerous successful books translated into several languages.