The Massacre of the Innocents

by Giambattista Marino

A harrowing 17th-century account in verse form of King Herod's campaign to murder the male infants of his kingdom

A finely crafted epic and literary monstrosity from the seventeenth-century "poet of the marvelous" the harrowing account, in four bloody cantos, of King Herod and his campaign to murder the male infants of his kingdom to prevent the loss of his throne to the prophesied King of the Jews. The book starts in the pits...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939663083
• ISBN13: 9781939663085
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Wakefield Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"