This book is not a fictional memoir of the Roman poet Harracius, but rather a memoir composed by Alexandre Dumas, based on the poet's biography and the chronicles of his time. These memoirs of Harracius, which we see as having a dual value: they recount the poet's life through his poems and his stories, and at the same time depict for us the turbulent and volatile era of his life. There is no doubt that the novelist intended, in these memoirs, which he lends to the great Roman poet, to paint, as in a mirror, an image of his own turbulent era—that is, the entirety of political life in France in the nineteenth century, which he observed through the biography of his father, the revolutionary and Napoleonic general, on the one hand, and through his own involvement in the life of his society, on the other. Beyond Harracius's Rome and Dumas' France, these memoirs, which are simultaneously a historical novel, constitute an exciting and painful journey into the worlds of tyranny. Kalima Project Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi - Dar Al Kutub