Raffaello Giovagnoli (1838-1915) was a famous Italian writer and revolutionary, an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi, an admirer and diligent student of Walter Scott and Alexandre Dumas, and a brilliant connoisseur of the history of Ancient Rome. His most popular novel, Spartacus, tells the story of a legendary slave uprising led by a fearless fighter who gave all his strength and passion to the struggle for freedom. This is a novel about beautiful and dramatic love, about friendship and betrayal, about the joy of struggle and the bitterness of defeat. The abundance of details and the brilliantly constructed composition of the novel allow you to immerse yourself in a long-vanished world in which, despite harsh mores, there has always been a place for the noblest and loftiest aspirations of the human heart. The book contains the full text of the novel, as well as wonderful illustrations by the Italian artist Nicolo Sanesi (1818-1889).