The Antiquities of Constantinople

Pierre Gilles ISBN: 0-934977-09-7

Italica Press - Hardcover 300pp $30.00

A first-hand description of the city by this French humanist and diplomat c.1550, during the age of Suleiyman the Magnificent, a century after the Turkish conquest. Gilles discusses the city's rich history and describes the hills, palaces, temples and churches, the markets, cisterns, columns, baths and other ancient monuments of this great capital.

"Gilles...explores a history so densely layered that one street corner could bear witness to the entire march of western civilization by turns Greek, Roman, Christian, and Moslem."
Small Press

"As a humanist-archeologist, Gilles uses his ancient Greek and Latin sources with a keen detective's eye and a fine sense of critical judgment. Wandering across the hills of the city with Gilles is a delight...."
Seventeenth-Century News

Illustrated, new introduction, bibliography, index, glossary , and 5 new maps. Based on John Ball's 1729 translation from Latin. 2nd ed., 2nd printing.