La biblioteca de Sidonio Apolinar

Abstract

In his letters Sidonius describes the library, which had been built in accordance with the precepts of Vitruvius, as a meeting place where the citizens of the gaul of V century a.D. could practice their optimistic and gratifying way of life. The books kept in the library are seen as the best way to make an escape from everyday life and retire into an artificial literary arcadia.