Tranquillo, Gaio Svetonio; Fra Paolo del Rosso [translator]. Le Vite dei Dodici Cesari. Napoli & Roma: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 1874. Second Edition. [583]
Leather spine with gilt title & ruling, red & black marbled boards, very good with light corner rubbing only. 16.5 x 10.5 cm (6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches), tight, floral print end papers, 411 clean and unmarked pages. Very good. Hardcover.
Text in Italian.
“Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius; (c. 69 – after 122 AD), was a Roman historian belonging to the equestrian order who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is a set of biographies of twelve successive Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar to Domitian, entitled De Vita Caesarum. He recorded the earliest accounts of Julius Caesar's epileptic seizures. Other works by Suetonius concern the daily life of Rome, politics, oratory, and the lives of famous writers, including poets, historians, and grammarians. A few of these books have partially survived, but many have been lost.” - Wikipedia.
