Memorie Di Adriano. Seguite Dai Taccuini Di Appunti by Marguerite Yourcenar
Seguite Dai Taccuini Di Appunti
An aging Roman emperor speaks in a reflective, intimate voice to his heir, recounting his life from youth and military campaigns to the burdens of rule, political calculations, artistic patronage and the passionate loss of a beloved youth; interweaving historical detail with philosophical meditation, he probes the nature of power, duty, justice and mortality while weighing the successes and failures that shaped the empire; the narrative’s elegiac, precise prose serves as both moral autobiography and human portrait, complemented by appended notebooks of drafts and observations that deepen the picture of a ruler confronting decline and the hope of surviving through memory.
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- 1951
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- 300-400
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- Memoirs of Hadrian
- Mémoires d'Hadrien
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