Quo Vadis: a Tale of the Time of Nero Free
FREE QUO VADIS: A TALE OF THE TIME OF NERO PDF Henryk Sienkiewicz,Jeremiah Curtin | 432 pages | 25 Mar 2011 | Dover Publications Inc. | 9780486476865 | English | New York, United States Quo Vadis: A Tale of the Time of Nero - Henryk Sienkiewicz - Google книги It takes place in the city of Rome under the rule of emperor Neroc. AD Sienkiewicz Quo Vadis: A Tale of the Time of Nero the Roman Empire extensively before writing the novel, with the aim of getting historical details correct. Consequently, several historical figures appear in the book. As a whole, the novel carries a pro-Christian message. The novel contributed to Sienkiewicz's Nobel Prize for literature in Several movies have been based on Quo Vadisincluding two Quo Vadis: A Tale of the Time of Nero silent films in and ina Hollywood production ina miniseries directed by Franco Rossiand a adaptation by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. The handsome but brutal tribune M. Vinicius, returning to Rome from service in the east, falls in love with "Lygia", a hostage daughter of the Lygian king, who is being raised in the house of Aulus Plautius a general of British fameand his wife Pomponia Graecinawho is secretly a Christian. Petronius uses his influence with Nero to have Lygia seized from the Plautius' and given to Vinicius; but the plan misfires when Caesar, during her brief custody on the Palatine in which she meets Acteinvites her to a riotous feast, where Lygia, inculcated with Christianity by Pomponia Graecina, is horrified by Vinicius' drunken advances, and the degeneracy of the Roman court. She commands Ursus her Lygian bodyguard, and also a convert to organize a band of Christians to waylay her chariot while she is being conveyed the following day from the Palatine to Vinicius' house; the plan succeeds, and Lygia disappears.
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