THE COLUMN OF IRON

For this holiday I recommend reading a novel that, although very extensive, will make you spend very pleasant moments on the beach or anywhere to rest. It is an international best seller written several decades ago, The Iron Column, by British-American writer Taylor Caldwell. You will wonder what this book has to do with the themes of this column and the answer is a lot: the novel deals with nothing less than the life of Cicero, the legendary Ro…