Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
In Rome, I got Memoirs of Hadrian, an imagined series of letters from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius. It's been on my radar for a while, so I was happy to pick it up in Rome.
The bookstore is pretty well stocked for contemporary English language literature and nonfiction. There were even sections for classics and drama in English. I was hoping to get a copy of Marcus Aurelius, but no luck. There was a section for Italian authors, including Calvino, Machiavelli, Marco Polo, Umberto Eco, and others. But nothing jumped out to me as more Roman than Memoirs of Hadrian.
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