Classics, Love, Revolution: The Legacies of Luigi Settembrini

Capra and Graziosi intervene in current debates about classics and its relation to revolutionary ruptures, nationalist movements, and identity politics today. They begin with The Neoplatonists, an explicit love story posing as the work of an imaginary ancient Greek author, but actually written by the Neapolitan revolutionary and classical scholar Luigi Settembrini (1813-1876).

Offering the first English translation of the tale—which, because of its celebration of homosexuality, long remaine...