The great Marcel Schwob , in Imaginary Lives , makes a semblance of Petronius , advisor and then an opponent of Nero, reputed by the Romans as "arbiter of elegance" and author of Satiricon , a classic of the libertine novel. Schwob, even recognizing his ingenuity and his broad culture, puts Petronio's delicacies alone and invents his death, at the hands of a drunken bullfighter, in the andurrials of the scoundrel he so hated. I have remembered Petronio because in the past Easter week

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