For many years, nothing important happened in the House. Then, the barbarians arrived.

A fourteen-year-old pig keeper finds himself enlisted in the legionaries of Rome to face the most terrible enemy of all time: Attila’s barbarians. Pietro will make a friend, Tito, and meet a great love, Giustina. He will have to disguise himself, be taken hostage, fight and even be fatally wounded by an enemy spatha. And in the end, he will contribute to founding a city destined to shine through the centuries and become famous throughout the world. The queen of the lagoon. Venice.

• A story of adventure that describes an unknown time and a place.
• Each chapter opens with an extraordinary tapestry illustrated in late Romanesque style that narrates a piece of history almost in “comic-book style”, creating a unique link between text and images.