by Marguerite Yourcenar · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806219710
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«Memorie di Adriano» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Einaudi in paperback (354 pages, in Italian).
Emperor Hadrian reviews his life and political governance upon knowing that Rome will one day fall; he retains his sense of the human, inherited from the Greeks, and the awareness of owing something to the beauty of the world. Includes Yourcenar's «Taccuini di appunti», with notes and memories about the long gestation of the work.
Original work «Mémoires d'Hadrien» (1951), translated into Italian by Lidia Storoni Mazzolani; winner of the Prix Femina Vacaresco (1952). Edition from Einaudi's Super ET collection.
For readers of historical fiction and classic fiction, with an interest in twentieth-century French literature and recreations of the Roman world.
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. In 1965, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
