The Verres Affair. Against Caecilius. First Action against Verres. Works of Art. Tortures.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 19166 |
| Format | 12.5 x 19 |
| Détails | 288 p., paperback |
| Publication | Paris, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
Protector of Sicily, where he reigns as a despot, Verres, a manic collector, strips the country of its finest works of art: deceit, cruelty, anything goes. But his mandate expires, he is indicted. Against him, Cicero rises up, who goes to investigate on the spot. Then, implacable, he opens the file of the most gigantic case of extortion of Antiquity. "The Verres affair is very complex, because of its political implications, the curious personality of the accused and the motives of the accusation: its impact until today, where it still raises controversy, is obviously due to the talent of Cicero who devoted no fewer than seven speeches to it, of which only two were actually delivered, the: against Caecilius and the First Action against Verres. The spontaneous exile of the accused having interrupted the debates, Cicero then published the Second Action against Verres which comprises five speeches or books. In the first (on the urban praetorship), there is a question of the shameful trafficking of Verres, praetor in Rome; in the second (on the way in which Verres administered justice in Sicily), of the iniquities he committed in judicial matters, during his propraetorship; in the third, of his embezzlement in the collection of taxes and the supply of wheat. The fourth: Works of Art, shows Verres collecting artistic riches at the expense of his subjects. The fifth: Torments, condemns Verres as the bad general using iniquitously and cruelly his right to torture. These last two speeches are the most justly famous of the whole of the Verrines.
Protector of Sicily, where he reigns as a despot, Verres, a manic collector, strips the country of its finest works of art: deceit, cruelty, anything goes. But his mandate expires, he is indicted. Against him, Cicero rises up, who goes to investigate on the spot. Then, implacable, he opens the file of the most gigantic case of extortion of Antiquity. "The Verres affair is very complex, because of its political implications, the curious personality of the accused and the motives of the accusation: its impact until today, where it still raises controversy, is obviously due to the talent of Cicero who devoted no fewer than seven speeches to it, of which only two were actually delivered, the: against Caecilius and the First Action against Verres. The spontaneous exile of the accused having interrupted the debates, Cicero then published the Second Action against Verres which comprises five speeches or books. In the first (on the urban praetorship), there is a question of the shameful trafficking of Verres, praetor in Rome; in the second (on the way in which Verres administered justice in Sicily), of the iniquities he committed in judicial matters, during his propraetorship; in the third, of his embezzlement in the collection of taxes and the supply of wheat. The fourth: Works of Art, shows Verres collecting artistic riches at the expense of his subjects. The fifth: Torments, condemns Verres as the bad general using iniquitously and cruelly his right to torture. These last two speeches are the most justly famous of the whole of the Verrines.