(ANSA) – ROME, OCTOBER 30 – ROBERTO TOPPETTA. AURELIANO, THE SOLDIER EMPEROR (Chillemi Editions, pp. 150, 15 euros). All connect the name of the emperor Aurelian (Sirmium, 9 September 214 – Byzantium, 25 September 275 AD) to the mighty wall, a masterpiece of military engineering, which he had built in Rome for fear of a return of the barbarians: however his parable cannot be reduced only to this and the Illyrian ruler, who ruled Rome from 270 AD to his death, can rightfully be included among the best emperors of Rome, together with Augustus, Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marco Aurelio, Septimius Severus, Claudius II, Diocletian, Constantine and Theodosius. This is what Roberto Toppetta asserts in his essay “Aureliano, the soldier emperor”, published by Edizioni Chillemi. The volume is a full-fledged biography of the emperor “born to fight”, a character whose in-depth analysis is lacking capable of describing his work in an exhaustive way. The author remembers him the government action and Caesarian war talent, which allowed him in a minimum span of time to re-tie the threads of the immense Roman world dismembered by the secessions of Gaul in the West and the Kingdom of Palmyra in the East. (HANDLE).
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