Memorie Of Adriano Of Marguerite Yourcenar 1988

Description: Memorie Of Adriano Of Marguerite Yourcenar 1988The description of this item has been automatically translated. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.In the words of the author, this is "the portrait of an almost wise man". Publius Elius Trajan Hadrian, known to history more simply as Hadrian, was head of the Roman Empire for about twenty years where he carried out radical reforms and promoted a policy of tolerance. In the novel by the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar, published in 1951, the emperor, now at the end of his life, tells his story in a long letter addressed to the young Marcus Aurelius who will later become his adoptive nephew. More than a history book, however, it is a philosophy book in the sense that it proposes more of a vision of the world than a sequence of events. Each page offers a lot of stimuli and ideas worthy of further study, making the novel a book to be picked up again several times, just as it has been taken up, abandoned and reworked again several times over a period of decades by the author. . “In Egypt, I saw colossal gods and kings; on the wrists of Sarmatian prisoners, I found bracelets that endlessly repeat the same galloping horse or the same snakes devouring each other. But our art (that of the Greeks, I mean) preferred to stick to man. We alone have been able to show in an immobile body the strength and agility that it conceals; we alone have made a smooth forehead the equivalent of a thought. I am like our sculptors: the human satisfies me. I find everything there, even eternity.”Bibliographic information of the BookTitle of the Book: Memoirs of Hadrian. Followed by NotebooksAuthors : Marguerite Yourcenar Storoni Mazzolani L. (ed.)Publisher: EinaudiNecklace: Ostriches , No. 340Publication date: 1988Type: foreign literatures: textsPages: 333Editor: Storoni Mazzolani L.Weight gr: 300Dimensions mm: 195 x 115 x 20ISBN-10: 8806600117ISBN-13: 9788806600112In the words of the author, this is "the portrait of an almost wise man". Publius Elius Trajan Hadrian, known to history more simply as Hadrian, was head of the Roman Empire for about twenty years where he carried out radical reforms and promoted a policy of tolerance. In the novel by the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar, published in 1951, the emperor, now at the end of his life, tells his story in a long letter addressed to the young Marcus Aurelius who will later become his adoptive nephew. More than a history book, however, it is a philosophy book in the sense that it proposes more of a vision of the world than a sequence of events. Each page offers a lot of stimuli and ideas worthy of further study, making the novel a book to be picked up again several times, just as it has been tak Titolo Memorie di Adriano Lingua Italiano Autore Marguerite Yourcenar Data di pubblicazione 1988 Anno di pubblicazione 1988 ISBN 8806600117 Editore Einaudi Nome della pubblicazione Memorie di Adriano

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