2023-10-18 14:03:50
Aldo Cazzullo’s new book “When we were the masters of the world. Rome: the infinite empire” will be published by HarperCollins in France, Germany, Spain and Latin America, Brazil in 2024. HarperCollins Italia announced it today, specifying the first countries have made official the foreign translations of the essay by the journalist, writer and television broadcaster which was released last September 26th in Italian bookstores and already at the top of the charts of best-selling books, where it placed first in non-fiction, “receiving an extraordinary reception from of Italian readers”, writes the publisher in a press release.
This is Germany, where the rights were acquired by Verlagsgruppe HarperCollins Deutschland, which will publish the book in May 2024; of France, with HarperCollins France due out in September 2024; of Spain and the countries of Latin America, with HarperCollins Ibérica which will launch the book in May 2024 and of Brazil, the country in which Casa Dos Livros Editora Ltda (HarperCollins Brasil) has purchased the foreign translation rights, which will publish the book in July 2024.
Aldo Cazzullo comments: “Italy is important in the world not only because Ferrari is fast and the pizza is good, but because the idea of world government was born here, on which Christian pietas was grafted. I am happy that also abroad there is great interest in Roman civilization, also because the West is ultimately a construction erected on the foundations of ancient Rome”.
Laura Donnini, CEO and Publisher of HarperCollins Italia, declared: “I am very happy with the reception of the foreign countries of the HarperCollins Publishers global network towards Aldo Cazzullo’s book, an essay that we are extremely proud to publish: Cazzullo gives us a brilliant reflection on the history of the greatest empire of all time, providing us with very useful tools to interpret our present. Over the years he has reconstructed the history and identity of Italy, it makes me proud to see his work reach markets of different languages compared to that of belonging”.
At the center of Aldo Cazzullo’s essay there is a question that fascinates readers throughout the Western world: why is the Roman Empire still so present in our language, in our imagination, in our politics? The history of the greatest empire of all time thus comes to life through the acute and enlightening reading of Aldo Cazzullo: the book tells the legendary foundation of Rome, from the literary myth of Aeneas to that of Romulus; the republican age, with heroes – including many women – willing to die for their country; the adventure of coup plotters like Catiline and revolutionaries like Spartacus, the slave who inspired rebels of every era; the extraordinary story of Julius Caesar and Octavian Augustus, two of the greatest men who ever lived; and the story of Constantine, because if today the West is Christian, if we pray to Jesus, if the Pope is in Rome, it is because the empire became Christian. All the empires in history have presented themselves as heirs of the ancient Romans and literature, cinema and comics have dedicated memorable works to Rome. Through a story full of details and curiosities, Aldo Cazzullo reconstructs the myth of Rome in his book and explains its perennial relevance, starting from the characters and stories and arriving at the ideas and signs. Starting with what has been the symbol of all the empires of the world, from Rome to America: the eagle.
Aldo Cazzullo was born in Alba in 1966. For 35 years he has reported on the main Italian and international events, first in the “Stampa” then in the “Corriere della Sera”, of which he is deputy director ad personam and responsible for the Letters page. He has published thirty books on Italian history and identity, selling one and a half million copies. He hosts “A particular day” on La7
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