The Dream of ScipioThe Dream of Scipio
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Book, 2002
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Current format, Book, 2002, , Available . Offered in 0 more formatsSet in Provence at three different critical moments of Western civilization, the story follows the fortunes of three men: Manlius Hippomanes, a Gallic aristocract obsessed with the preservation of Roman civilization; Olivier de Noyen, a poet in the service of a powerful cardinal who is engaged in a treacherous plot to restore the papacy to Rome; and Julian Barneuve, a disaffected intellectual who joins the Vichy government in the hope of rescuing his own sense of humanity. Each man is in love with an extraordinary woman, and each love affair, because of its era, is ill-starred. The three eras are linked by a Neoplatonist text--"The dream of Scipio"--that poses philosophical questions as pertinent in the fifth, fourteenth, and mid-twentieth centuries as they are today.
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