Guglielmo Ferrero

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Reproduction of the original: The Women of the Caesars by Guglielmo Ferrero

Translated from Italian into English, The Life of Caesar, by thethe author, is, as the title would suggest, a biography of the great Roman Dictator Julius Caesar. The author's book, however, cannot be described just as a biography. His work, in fact, can be more accurately defined as a complete history not only of Julius Caesar's life, but also of his times, the time of the fall of the Roman Republic.

Translated from Italian into English, The Life of Caesar, by the noted Italian historian Guglielmo Ferrero, is, as the title would suggest, a biography of the great Roman Dictator Julius Caesar. Ferrero's book, however, cannot be described just as a biography. His work, in fact, can be more accurately defined as a complete history not only of Julius Caesar's life, but also of his times, the time of the fall of the Roman Republic.

In the spring of 1906, the Coll ge de France invited me to deliver, during November of that year, a course of lectures on Roman history. I accepted, giving a r sum , in eight lectures, of the history of the government of Augustus from the end of the civil wars to his death; that is, a r sum of the matter contained in the fourth and fifth volumes of the English edition of my work, The Greatness and Decline of Rome.

Characters and Events of Roman History From Caesar to Nero the Lowell Lectures of 1908 is a classic Roman history text by Guglielmo Ferrero. In the spring of 1906, the College de France invited me to deliver, during November of that year, a course of lectures on Roman history. I accepted eight lectures, of the history of the government of Augustus from the end of the civil wars to his death; that is, a retelling of the matter contained in the fourth and fifth volumes of the English edition of my work, The Greatness and Decline of Rome.