This Italian monograph about the "melancholic god" reconstructs the ancient figure and the seductive charm he has exerted on the history of taste. A rich and, in some cases, previously unpublished carousel of illustrations, gathers together masterpieces from Hadrian's Villa and others conserved in European museums, thus forming an ideal image gallery of the Bithynian youth from ancient times to the present day. The volume refers to the first great Italian exhibition on Antinous in relation to the Emperor Hadrian in a unique location: Hadrian's Villa, the marble city immersed in the evocative landscape of the Tiber, where they lived together for some time and where the archaeological remains of the Antinoeion, a sanctuary dedicated to the god or perhaps his monumental tomb, were found. Exhibition: Villa Adriana, Tivoli, Italy (5.4.-12.11.2012).