Catullus' Bedspread

“A superb portrait of this most human of poets who leaps to life, hating and loving as ferociously as ever, before our twenty-first-century eyes.” — The Sunday Times (London) A vivid narrative that recreates the life of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome’s first modern poet, and follows a young man’s journey through a world filled with all the indulgences and sexual excesses of the time, from doomed love affairs to shrewd political maneuvering and backstabbing—an accessible, appealing look at one of