Con la recensione da parte del nostro Direttore Didattico, Prof. Robert Dodd, del libro " Lustrum" di Robert Harris, indirizziamo una nuova proposta culturale agli Amici del British Institute of Rome iscritti ai nostri corsi o anche semplicemente interessati alla lettura di libri in lingua originale.

Il Book Club vuole essere un Punto di Incontro per scambiare commenti a libri in inglese, consultare o prendere in prestito i libri della Biblioteca in via di allestimento presso la Scuola, organizzare presentazioni di nuovi libri nei locali della stessa.

Troverete in fondo alla pagina il link Parla col British, attraverso il quale farci pervenire, in inglese o in italiano, anche il Vostro commento.

Saranno graditi anche i suggerimenti per opere, saggi e romanzi in inglese che vorreste poter trovare nella nostra Biblioteca.

Quo, usque tandem, Catilina, abutere patientia nostra?
If your English is at an advanced level or above it's well worth reading the second novel in the trilogy by Robert Harris, the author of Enigma, Fatherland and Pompeii.

In Lustrum Harris continues the career of the great orator Marcus Tullius Cicero, through the eyes of his slave Tiro. If you have read the first novel in the series, Imperium , you will find that the tensions driven by political ambitions are growing: Cicero the self-made man is now consul of the Roman republic, having defeated Catilina - remember in toga candida? Now the threat posed by Catilina begins to take on another form; a conspiracy maturing from those deep in debt and the homeless filling the streets of Rome. Yet who is behind the conspiracy - the inscrutable populist Julius Caesar or the 'banker' Marcus Crassus, who seems to be financing electoral campaigns and corruption in the courts? And what is their ultimate goal - political control of the senate or the end of the republic? Harris writes entertaining prose, revealing the subtle menace of Pompey the Great and Caesar, the changing and hidden alliances of republican Rome and the dangers to which his protagonist is increasingly exposed by his own weaknesses. This is a great book for all those who know and love Roman history - whether you agree or disagree with all the details given by Harris.

Two copies of Lustrum are available for our students to borrow from the library.



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