Le Invasioni Barbariche in Italia is Professor Pasquale Villari's popular account of the barbarian invasions of the Roman Empire from the Antonines to the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 A.D. as Holy Roman Emperor.
[1] The book, with 3 maps and about 500 pages,[1] was intended to be easy to read and appealing to the general reader of Italian.
In the book, Villari's main focus is on the Teutonic invasions of the 3rd through 6th centuries A.D.
[2] Madame Villari's translation is verbally as accurate as might have been expected; but somehow it lacks the attractiveness of the original.
[3]The figures of the chief actors in this strife of centuries — Alaric, Attila, Genseric, Theodoric, Justinian, Belisarius, Alboin — are well and forcibly drawn by Professor Villari.