{"title":"Edward Paice","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-ira-de-deus","title":"The wrath of God","description":"\"Very clear, vast, and sober.\" Daily Telegraph \"An excellent guide to this tumultuous world.\" The Spectator. November 1, 1755, was All Saints' Day, one of the most important dates in the religious calendar. In Lisbon, Europe's fourth-largest city and the opulent metropolis of the great Portuguese empire, the day had dawned warm and clear. A few minutes after nine-thirty, a terrible noise announced one of the most devastating catastrophes ever to hit a major Western city. The ten-minute duration of the Great Lisbon Earthquake has rarely been equaled. The largest of its three earthquakes measured between 8.75 and 9 on the Richter scale. Two gigantic aftershocks followed, as did a massive tidal wave. The destruction was completed with a fire that burned for a week, consuming an area larger than the Great Fire of London. Most of the vast riches stored in Lisbon's palaces, churches, and warehouses were lost. Between 30,000 and 40,000 people died in Lisbon, and another 10,000 elsewhere. When the tsunami swept into Cádiz, Spain's main port, it demolished the city's 1.8-meter-high wall and hurled 10-ton rocks 15 meters away. The same day, it reached the Caribbean. The earthquake's impact on Western thought and religion was immediate and immense. Across Europe, theologians and philosophers struggled to reconcile the infliction of so much suffering and destruction on Lisbon with their belief in the existence of a benevolent deity. Soon after, Voltaire used the disaster as the basis for his famous attack on the hegemonic philosophy of \"optimism.\" Occurring on the eve of the Seven Years' War, the first global armed conflict, the earthquake marked the beginning of a \"modern era\" in terrifying and spectacular fashion. Drawing on primary sources, many of which had never been used before, Edward Paice paints a vivid picture of a city and society forever changed in a matter of minutes. The Wrath of God is a masterful writer's gripping account of a natural disaster remembered a century later as \"the most fearsome catastrophe in recorded history.\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159594320124,"sku":"9788501086532","price":94.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/9dc308d6f0c9548e64cf0dc46d174492.jpg?v=1778325627"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/edward-paice.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}