Catilina: Ritratto di un uomo in rivolta by Massimo FiniMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Interesting recap of Catiline's life and the second conspiracy, albeit very biased 'toward' Catiline. The way Fini tells it, Catiline was doing this purely for the Res Publica, and not because he had no hope of being a consul anymore, was pretty much broke, and had quite a few disaffected ex Sulla soldiers ready to follow him.
Also, with regard to Cicero's childhood, Fini states, verbatim: "E come ogni primo della classe che si rispetti leccava il culo al maestro..." (p.23) Ok.. Bonjour finesse...
As well as (still regarding Cicero) how a man with limited horizons cannot understand the idealistic soul of Catiline (p. 32)
Evidently the author is trying to be contrarian, which is interesting, but he is being a bit too forced and obvious about it.
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