Italy On This Day

Fascinating stories from each day of the year about the people and events that have shaped the culture and history of Italy

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Showing posts with label Cicero. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Cicero. Show all posts

7 December 2023

Marcus Tullius Cicero – statesman, scholar and writer

The brutal beheading of a great Roman politician and orator A late 19th century book illustration showing the imagined scene of the murder o...

30 October 2018

Poggio Bracciolini – scholar and humanist

Calligrapher who could read Latin changed the course of history The linguist and scholar Poggio Bracciolini was born in a village near...

10 July 2017

The death of Hadrian

Legacy of emperor famous for wall across Britain A bust of Hadrian from the Farnese Collection in Naples The Roman emperor Hadrian,...

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