La giovinezza di Cesare: libro in italiano per studenti intermedi (B2)

Glossario

Campo Marzio · the Campus Martius ((sin. piazza, campo))

L'ampia zona pianeggiante di Roma, tra il Campidoglio e il Tevere, dove si tenevano le assemblee popolari e le esercitazioni militari.

The wide plain of Rome, between the Capitol and the Tiber, where popular assemblies and military exercises were held.

In the novel it is the space of the vote and the crowd: here Caesar presents his candidates, here the assemblies gather. It is the place where consensus is measured physically.

Catilina · Catiline ((sin. congiurato, senatore))

Lucio Sergio Catilina (108–62 a.C.), senatore romano di antica famiglia patrizia.

Lucius Sergius Catilina (108–62 BC), a Roman senator of ancient patrician family.

The conspirator par excellence. The novel follows his arc from financial ruin to attempted coup: the mirror image of Caesar, who obtains through politics what Catiline attempts by force.

Clodio · Clodius ((sin. tribuno, demagogo))

Publio Clodio Pulcro (93–52 a.C.), tribuno della plebe, politico spregiudicato.

Publius Clodius Pulcher (93–52 BC), tribune of the plebs, an unscrupulous politician.

The man Caesar uses and lets be used. Clodius is the instrument of his popular politics: he passes laws, incites the crowd, and ends up killed in a street brawl. In the novel he is the most cynical face of Caesarism.

Dea Bona · Bona Dea ((sin. dea delle donne, culto femminile))

Nell'antica Roma, dea femminile della fecondità, il cui culto era riservato esclusivamente alle donne.

In ancient Rome, a goddess of fertility whose cult was strictly reserved to women.

The festival of Bona Dea is the great scandal of the novel. Clodius, disguised as a woman, enters Caesar's house during the rite: Caesar repudiates his wife, and does so with a proverbial phrase.

Fulvia · Fulvia ((sin. matrona, moglie))

Nobildonna romana (83–40 a.C. ca.), moglie di Clodio (poi di Curione e infine di Antonio).

A Roman noblewoman (c. 83–40 BC), wife of Clodius (later of Curio and finally of Antony).

One of the first Roman women to carry political weight of her own. In the book she embodies a city where even wives choose a party and lead a faction: an anti-traditional figure, feared and admired.

Giulia · Julia, Caesar’s daughter ((sin. figlia, sposa))

Giulia Cesaris (76 ca.–54 a.C.), figlia di Cesare e di Cornelia.

Julia Caesaris (c. 76–54 BC), daughter of Caesar and Cornelia.

Her life is very short and politically decisive: Caesar gives her in marriage to Pompey to seal the alliance. With her death, the bond between the two dissolves: and the road to civil war opens.

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