155 Gibbon
155 吉本
It is not difficult to envisage the character and figure; what seems strange, and remote, and hard to grasp is the connection between this individual and the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. The paradox, indeed, is so complete as to be almost romantic. At a given moment October 15, 1764,at a given place一the Capitoline Hill, outside the church of Aracoeli-the impact occurred between the serried centuries of Rome and Edward Gibbon. His life, his work, his fame, his place in the history of civilization, followed from that circumstance. The point of his achievement lay precisely in the extreme improbability of it. The utter incongruity of those combining elements produced the masterpiece-the gigantic ruin of Europe through a thousand years. mirrored in the mind of an eighteenth-century English gentleman.
不难想像其性格和体态,但显得荒谬怪诞、遥不可及和难以琢磨的是这个人与罗马帝国的衰亡,他们之间存在着联系。确切地说。这个悖论是如此彻底,以至近乎荒谬。在一个特定时刻1764年10月15日,在一个特定地点阿拉柯利大教堂外的卡皮托利尼山历经世纪沧桑的罗马与爱德华吉本之间发生了碰撞。他的生活、他的成就、他的声誉、他在文明史上的地位,都源于那次机缘。他的成就的意义恰恰在于其不可能完成性。那些混合要素的完全不协调性造就了这部辉煌的巨著欧洲历经千年的巨大废墟在18世纪的一位英国绅士的头脑中映现出来。
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