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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon (; 8 May 173716 January 1794) was a British essayist, historian and politician. His most important work, ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organized religion. Provided by Wikipedia