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Platone. Una storia d’amore
“Plato: A Love Story” (title translated by AI)
Matteo Nucci (born 1970)
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A summer morning in 415 BC: four boys are perched on a rock above the port of Piraeus, silent as war looms. Among them is a twelve-year-old with a feverish gaze, Aristocles, who years later, because of his broad shoulders, will be called Plato. The man beside him that morning tells his story. A shy boy given to anger, grieving the early death of his father, dominated by an omnipresent mother and quietly looked after by his sister, he watches Athens lose the war to Sparta, refuses to join his uncles' bloody political scheme, meets Socrates, the strangest man in Athens, and gives himself to philosophy.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 566 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Greece, Egypt, Libya, 5th–4th century BC
- First published
- 2025 by Feltrinelli
- Author's age
- 55 when first published
- ISBN
9788807036736 (original)