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Cesare : la conquista dell'eternità
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Imagine setting out with Julius Caesar and his legions. It's 58 BC, Gaul is a distant land, inhabited by warlike, untamed peoples who have already inflicted painful defeats on the Romans. But it is also a rich and prosperous land. Julius Caesar wants to conquer it, for himself and for Rome, and to do so he is willing to face any adversity: exhausting marches in the snow and bloody battles, palace intrigues and betrayals, bridges to be built and fleets to be created from scratch, forests said to be haunted and sanctuaries with decapitated skeletons. It will be an adventurous journey full of discovery, which Caesar will guide with the courage and curiosity of Odysseus. But it will also be an inner journey, alongside a man relentless and brilliant, charismatic and tireless, yet not without his own doubts and hidden fears. A leader with his dark and violent sides, but also a fine thinker and a great writer, who loves passionately, betrays and is betrayed, who is engaged, husband, father, lover, widower, heterosexual, bisexual... And in the background of the story, completing the vast fresco of that crucial era for the fate of Rome and Europe, appear Cicero and Catullus, Cleopatra and Mark Antony, Crassus and Pompey, Calpurnia, Caesar's sweet wife, and Julia, his beloved daughter. Alberto Angela returns to bookstores with a unique and grandiose work, drawing inspiration from De Bello Gallico to draw us into an unparalleled adventure. The pages unfold with the pace and atmosphere of the most gripping films and TV series, while simultaneously enriching the reader with discoveries, curiosities, and reflections on the Roman world. The reconstructions of faces, battle scenes, and everyday life, created with the support of artificial intelligence, also allow us to review, as if they were current, lost snapshots of life.
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