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Poculum
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ISBN13: 9798900305349
Publisher: Simone Maggi
Published: Oct 22 2025
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Simone Maggi
Published: Oct 22 2025
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A dialogue of spiritual and philosophical gravity, Poculum is a timeless meditation on memory, identity, and the fate of truth in a world that no longer remembers.
Set in the final years of Rome's conscience, on the eve of a fire that would burn the city and its certainties, it gathers a circle of thinkers who speak through the night, weighing what must be preserved when language, faith, and meaning begin to collapse.
Set in the final years of Rome's conscience, on the eve of a fire that would burn the city and its certainties, it gathers a circle of thinkers who speak through the night, weighing what must be preserved when language, faith, and meaning begin to collapse.
At its heart, the work engages with questions that bridge philosophy, history, and moral vision, blending elements of:
Through a dialogue reminiscent of Plato and the late Stoics, yet alive with modern urgency, Poculum confronts the reader: may it remind that in every age there are those who do not retreat, even when unrecorded; that memory, when borne with integrity, becomes more than remembrance. It becomes resistance.
And perhaps, for some, it will reveal itself as what it was always meant to be: a beginning.
- memory and forgetting
- love and its counterfeits
- the body and the land
- language and doctrine
- witness and silence
Through a dialogue reminiscent of Plato and the late Stoics, yet alive with modern urgency, Poculum confronts the reader: may it remind that in every age there are those who do not retreat, even when unrecorded; that memory, when borne with integrity, becomes more than remembrance. It becomes resistance.
And perhaps, for some, it will reveal itself as what it was always meant to be: a beginning.
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