Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Andrea Mantegna and Canaletto. Rome in the last years of the republic - Caesar crossing the Rubicon, Pompey's flight, and a young Roman caught between them. Davis was a professor of ancient history and built the novel from Cicero's letters. This edition is bound with a gallery of 56 plates, among them Andrea Mantegna's Triumphs of Caesar and paintings by Vincenzo Camuccini and Aniello Falcone.