Augustine
by Robin Lane Fox,
Allen Lane, £25
In San Gimignano on an April Sunday in 1966, around the age of 20, Robin Lane Fox was introduced to the story of St Augustine by his uncle, who took him to see the frescoes in the church that bears the saint’s name.
Nearly 50 years later, Lane Fox, now an Oxford don and a successful author of books on the classical world, was crawling on his hands and knees through a sub-basement of the Bodleian to find articles on Augustine for this new biography, subtitled Conversations and Confessions.
