Fellini-Satyricon is a romp through an ancient Rome recreated via the imagination of the director Federico Fellini. Here Andrea Perruccio offers us an enlightening comparative study of the cinematic text and its source material, Satyrica by Petronius. Through scrupulous scholarship, close reading, and strong analytical intuition, Show-off, Unreliable, Erratic is a perfect gateway into that work of fiction from the Imperial Rome of Nero as well as the Fellini masterpiece.