Suetonius Tranquillus (Gaius).
Vitae XII Caesarum
Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 5 April 1493
Minor wormholes at foot of some leaves generally not affecting text, several leaves with some loss and mostly restored with later tissue, occasional early annotations in ink to margins
Otherwise very good condition
18th-century calf binding, re-backed, retaining old morocco title label to spine
Size 8 by 10.5"
327 leaves (654 pages)

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus , commonly known as Suetonius ( c. AD 69 – after AD 122), was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.
His most important surviving work is a set of biographies of 12 successive Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar to Domitian, entitled De vita Caesarum.
De vita Caesarum ("About the Life of the Caesars"), commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.
The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his surviving writings. It was dedicated to a friend, the Praetorian prefect Gaius Septicius Clarus.
The Twelve Caesars was considered very significant in antiquity and remains a primary source on Roman history. The book discusses the significant and critical period of the Principate from the end of the Republic to the reign of Domitian; comparisons are often made with Tacitus, whose surviving works document a similar period.



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