L’ombra perfetta

The villa of Lucius Piso enchants because of the beauty of the landscape in which it is set and the presence of a coterie of poets and philosophers. At Lucius' side lives his only daughter, Calpurnia, whom he loves tenderly.
This, however, will not prevent him from deciding her fate. Nothing is different from what has always happened: alliances are strengthened by marriages.
Calpurnia knows this and accepts it, with all the doubts and hopes one can have at eighteen. But nothing is a given, since her husband will be Gaius Julius Caesar.
To decipher and cope with a complex, hypocritical, often hostile reality Calpurnia will have as weapons the spirit of observation and the comfort of poetry and philosophy, represented by Catullus and Lucretius, different and magnificent fruits of their age.
How the story of the sons of Romulus will end is known.
But the daughters of Remus will still be able to whisper, by the sea of Herculaneum, their truths.