Celebrated Translations -- Spartacus (Color Illustrations Edition)

Author: (Italian) Giovanni Verga, translated by Li Laimin
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The long historical novel Spartacus is one of the outstanding works by the Italian democratic writer Giovanni Verga. Based on real historical events, the novel narrates the largest slave uprising that broke out in Rome in 73 BC. Under the brilliant military command of Spartacus, the slave rebel army fought across the country for more than three years, achieving surprising victories and overwhelming the enemy forces with superiority. Battles such as the surprise attack on the Roman army in Vesuvius, the two defeats of Varinius, the easy capture of Nola, and the decisive victory at the Battle of Fenny in Aquinum dealt fatal blows to the Roman army, making them tremble with fear and flee in panic. The book also portrays the sincere love between the protagonist and Varinia amidst the flames of war, reflecting the joys and sorrows, human emotions, and social realities of the revolutionaries on the battlefield. Spartacus is an outstanding work by Giovanni Verga, an Italian democratic writer, historian, and literary critic. It tells the story of the slave uprising in ancient Rome in 73 BC and portrays the image of slave heroes led by Spartacus. It is one of the few excellent works in Italian and even European literary history that depict the image of armed leaders of the working people. Spartacus is a remarkable historical novel that has won the love of readers around the world since its publication. It has been translated into dozens of languages. The founder of the Italian Communist Party, Antonio Gramsci, highly praised the popular nature of Spartacus and pointed out that it was one of the few Italian novels popular abroad at the time.