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The year is 63 BC, and Gordianus the Finder unexpectedly achieves the dream of every Roman: owning a farm in the Etruscan countryside. Vowing to leave behind the corruption of Rome, he abandons the city, taking his family with him. This bucolic life, however, is disrupted by the machinations and murderous plots of two politicians. When Gordianus' longtime patron Cicero attains his lifelong dream of a coveted consulship, he urgently requests a favor of Gordianus: his help in keeping watch on a radical populist senator, Catilina-Cicero's political rival and a candidate to replace him in the annual elections. Against his will, Gordianus finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a maelstrom of deceit and intrigue, uncertain of the dangers and even more uncertain of where his true allegiance lies. When his six-year-old daughter Diana finds a headless corpse in their stable, Gordianus is confronted with the deadliest mystery of his career. Shrewdly depicting deadly political maneuverings, this addictive mystery also displays the author's firm grasp of history and human character.… (plus d'informations)
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Embossed upon the shield Aeneas saw
The stony halls of the netherworld, the domain of the damned
And the punishments they suffer. There Catilina clings to the edge of a sheer
Precipice, cringing in terror while the Furies beat their wings about him . . .
VIRGIL, The Aeneid, VIII: 666-669
How haue we chang'd and come about
in every doome,
Since wicked CATILINE went out,
And quitted Rome?
One while, we thought him innocent;
And, then w'accus'd
The Consul, for his malice spent;
And power abus'd.
Since, that we heare, he is in armes
We thinke not so:
Yet charge the Consul, with our harmes
That let him goe:
So, in our censure of the state,
We still do wander;
And make the careful magistrate
The marke of slander.
Ben Jonson, Catiline his Conspiracy, ACT IV: 863-878
What is truth?
PONTIUS PILATUS
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To the Shade of My Mother
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"According to Cato . . ." I said, and paused, squinting at the scroll.
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Instead I live with doubt and regret, sustained by the love of those close to me, bemused by such ironies as Cicero's exile and Claudia's fate, and I continue to ponder, as I know you must, Catilina's riddle.
The year is 63 BC, and Gordianus the Finder unexpectedly achieves the dream of every Roman: owning a farm in the Etruscan countryside. Vowing to leave behind the corruption of Rome, he abandons the city, taking his family with him. This bucolic life, however, is disrupted by the machinations and murderous plots of two politicians. When Gordianus' longtime patron Cicero attains his lifelong dream of a coveted consulship, he urgently requests a favor of Gordianus: his help in keeping watch on a radical populist senator, Catilina-Cicero's political rival and a candidate to replace him in the annual elections. Against his will, Gordianus finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a maelstrom of deceit and intrigue, uncertain of the dangers and even more uncertain of where his true allegiance lies. When his six-year-old daughter Diana finds a headless corpse in their stable, Gordianus is confronted with the deadliest mystery of his career. Shrewdly depicting deadly political maneuverings, this addictive mystery also displays the author's firm grasp of history and human character.
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