One example is Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian, " an imagined life of the Roman emperor Hadrian.

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Applied to Getty, who imagined he was the reincarnation of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, and who admired Hitler as a kind of 20th century Hadrian, Mencken was partially right on.

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