{"id":1726,"date":"2006-01-26T23:58:09","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T04:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2018-08-24T03:33:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T07:33:44","slug":"14586-%c2%a0%c2%a0-valerio-massimo-manfredi-the-last-legion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1726","title":{"rendered":"14586.&nbsp;(Valerio Massimo Manfredi) The Last Legion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } -->An inter\u00adest\u00ading his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal nov\u00adel set in the peri\u00adod of Romu\u00adlus Augus\u00adtus, the last Roman Emper\u00ador in the West\u00adern Empire. The book is trans\u00adlated from Ital\u00adian. It is fast-paced adven\u00adture fic\u00adtion, writ\u00adten in the spir\u00adit of Alexan\u00addre Dumas. There is a \u201csur\u00adprise\u201d end\u00ading, which the read\u00ader will prob\u00ada\u00adbly see com\u00ading fair\u00adly ear\u00adly in the game. Though most of the action takes place in Italy, it is suf\u00adfused with the \u201cMat\u00adter of Britain\u201d. Doesn\u2019t any\u00adone ever write about late Roman Spain, or Nor\u00adica, or Africa?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inter\u00adest\u00ading his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal nov\u00adel set in the peri\u00adod of Romu\u00adlus Augus\u00adtus, the last Roman Emper\u00ador in the West\u00adern Empire. The book is trans\u00adlated from Ital\u00adian. It is fast-paced adven\u00adture fic\u00adtion, writ\u00adten in the spir\u00adit of Alexan\u00addre Dumas. There is&nbsp;a&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1726\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bu-reading-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9827,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions\/9827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}