Saturday, November 1, 2008

Calories In Skirt Streak

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs

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

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