,
Guglielmo Ferrero

Guglielmo Ferrero’s Followers (16)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Guglielmo Ferrero


Born
in Italy
July 21, 1871

Died
August 03, 1942

Influences
Metternich, Talleyrand, Constant, Sieyés, Guizot, Rousseau


Guglielmo Ferrero was an Italian historian, journalist and novelist, author of the Greatness and Decline of Rome (6 vols., 1903–1908).

Born in Portici, near Naples, Ferrero studied law in Pisa, Bologna and Turin. Soon afterward he married Gina Lombroso, a daughter of Cesare Lombroso, the criminologist and psychiatrist with whom he wrote Criminal Woman, the Prostitute and the Normal Woman. In 1891-1894 Ferrero traveled extensively in Europe and in 1897 wrote The Young Europe. After studying the history of Rome Ferrero turned to political essays and novels (Between Two Worlds in 1913, Speeches to the Deaf in 1925 and The Two Truths in 1933-1939). When the fascist reign of Black Shirts forced liberal intellectuals to leave Italy in 1925, Ferrer
...more

Average rating: 3.7 · 235 ratings · 35 reviews · 299 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Women of the Caesars

3.43 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1911 — 106 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Characters and Events of Ro...

3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2003 — 97 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
La ruina de la civilización...

by
4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2010 — 31 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The principles of power: Th...

4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1942 — 8 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Il Congresso di Vienna, 181...

3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1940
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Greatness and Decline o...

4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 102 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Greatness and Decline o...

by
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1963 — 101 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Nouvelle Histoire Romaine (...

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings8 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Reconstruction of Europ...

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1941 — 6 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
იულიუს კეისარი

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Guglielmo Ferrero…
Quotes by Guglielmo Ferrero  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“...úgy áll ugyanis a dolog, hogy az erővel való visszaélés nemcsak a szerencsétlen áldozatot tölti el félelemmel, hanem még inkább azt is, aki a visszaélést elköveti.”
Guglielmo Ferrero, Bonaparte en Italie

“Az egymásnak ellentmondó igazságok, melyeket a szkepticizmus szembeállít egymással, hogy ezzel azt bizonyítsa, hogy nincs igazság, valójában az egyetlen igazság darabjai; ez az igazság azonban túl összetett ahhoz, hogy az emberi értelem teljes egészében megragadja. A történelem gyengesége igazából az, hogy azok az igazságtöredékek, melyeket megérthet, rendszerint külön állnak, s érdekek, indulatok torzítják őket.”
Guglielmo Ferrero, Bonaparte en Italie

“He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.”
Guglielmo Ferrero, The Women of the Caesars

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
The History Book ...: SERIES - BIBLIOGRAPHY - SPOILER THREAD 54 177 Feb 27, 2013 02:16PM  
Catholic Thought: Founding of Christendom Chapters Nine & Ten 12 4 Aug 28, 2015 02:55PM  
Goodreads Librari...: This topic has been closed to new comments. Please combine 1013 293 Apr 11, 2019 07:28AM