Yourcenar, Marguerite,   1903-1987. <br/><br/>
Memoirs of Hadrian ;   and Reflections on the composition of Memoirs of Hadrian /  
Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace Frick 
 - Paperback edition  
 - New York :   Farrar, Straus and Giroux,   2005 
 - 347 pages :   illustrations ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/>Animula vagula blandula<br/>Varius multiplex multiformis<br/>Tellus stabilita<br/>Saeculum aureum<br/>Disciplina augusta<br/>Patientia<br/> 
<br/><br/> Both an exploration of character and a meditation on history, Marguerite Yourcenar's novel Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its publication in France in 1951. Written in the form of a testamentary letter from the emperor Hadrian to his successor, the youthful Marcus Aurelius, the work is as extraordinary for its psychological depth as for its accurate reconstruction of the second century of our era. In it, Yourcenar reimagines Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his reordering of a war-torn world 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780374529260 0374529264 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label> / Y81m 2005