Colloredo Mels, Pierluigi Romeo di Cesare

Among the great protagonists of history, Caesar is certainly one of those about whom the most has been written in the more than two thousand years since his assassination; not a year goes by without new biographies, new scholarly and popular works being published. Loved, admired, imitated, hated, Caesar leaves no one indifferent: and it can be said that there are as many Caesars as there are authors, historians and philologists who have written about him.

Caesar was the one who, more than any other, passed through the stages of political and military power, putting ambition at the service of ability and vice versa. His name has become synonymous with emperor in German (Kaiser), Slavic languages (Zar), Arabic (Qaysar i Rumi) and Turkish (Qäiser). In this book, the life of Caesar and his civil and military deeds will be presented through the voices of his contemporaries and the Latin and Greek historians who came a little later, especially through the writings of Caesar himself, who was not only a leader and statesman, but also one of the great historians and literary figures of world literature, along with Suetonius, Plutarch, Nicolaus of Damascus, Pliny, Appian and Cassius Dio.