by Isabella Guarini Adriano is an emperor who could well survive in our day. Marquer Yoursenar's masterpiece presents a man in its entirety through the historical reconstruction, not learned, but the narrative is enriched by notebooks author notes. It seems to me a dialogue between a great history and an individual existence of our times, marked by wars in those regions where Adriano scored the maximum limit of his empire. But history has a long memory so conflicts inevitably return when the issues remain unresolved for a long time.
Einaudi Editore, pgg.350, € 11.50
