Alcibiades the Schoolboy by Antonio Rocco

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The book Alcibiades the Schoolboy used to be originally written in Italian, in 1630, and then translated into French by, perhaps, Édouard Cléder. As a result of the expense of the English version–when found–I determined to translate it myself from French, my second language, into English, my first. I’ve priced the book, as I do everything I write, at the lowest cost allowed by the publisher.
Incredibly, Rocco used to be a priest, in addition to a author and an Aristotelian philosophy teacher. He wrote Alcibiades the School Boy, as said, in 1630. It’s first publication, in 1652, used to be mostly destroyed As a result of the filth of its content, and used to be republished in 1862. It used to be again found filthy and again in large part destroyed. Philotime is modeled after Socrates, and is wonderfully portrayed as being as hypocritical as the great Athenian philosopher himself. The text is thought of as the world’s first homoerotic novel, and I ensure that it is highly erotic. Many a novice, many a monk, (many a translator), will have to have passed disquieting days copying it, restless nights mauling it over.
The first half of this book recounts the historically accurate life of Alcibiades that I myself wrote following months of research. The second one half is the translation of Rocco’s oeuvre.

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