After Hannibal (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Barry Unsworth
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1995
- Setting: Perugia and the Umbria district of central Italy
- Principal Characters: Harold Chapman, Cecilia Chapman, Anders Ritter, Monti, Mr. and Mrs. Green, Fabio, Stan Blemish, Milly Blemish, The Checchetti, Signor Mancini
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Love or romance, Twentieth century, Education or educators, Marriage, Betrayal, Roads, streets, or highways, Law or legislation, Historians, Greed, Property, Italy or Italians
- Locales: Perugia, Italy
When, two hundred years before the common era, Hannibal and his troops ambushed the Roman army on the shores of Lake Trasimeno, they took advantage of the natural circumstances of the marsh and mists through which the Romans were marching. Other sorts of warfare have also been practiced in and around Perugia. After Hannibal, the city was ruled first by Biordo Michelotti, who, perhaps betrayed by his newlywed wife, was murdered by members of a rival family, the Guidalotti (assisted by Pope Boniface). The Guidalotti were followed by the even more powerful and brutal Baglioni family, who...
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