The Verres affair.
The Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 25602 |
| Format | 12.5 x 19 |
| Détails | 288 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251200491 |
“The Taste of Ideas” Collection.
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 on the most gigantic case of bribery in 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 up to the present day, where it still arouses 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 affairs, 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: Tortures , condemns Verres as the bad general using his right to torture in an unjust and cruel way. These last two speeches are the most justly famous of the whole of the Verrines.
“The Taste of Ideas” Collection.
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 on the most gigantic case of bribery in 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 up to the present day, where it still arouses 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 affairs, 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: Tortures , condemns Verres as the bad general using his right to torture in an unjust and cruel way. These last two speeches are the most justly famous of the whole of the Verrines.