La croce processionale di Belmonte in Sabina

This work aims to synthesize the textual and (massive) material evidence on the empress Sabina (born ca. 85–died ca. 137). The book traces the development of Sabina’s partnership w...

This chapter surveys the textual and material evidence for Sabina’s first dozen years as empress. Following his accession in August 117, Hadrian apparently made no special effort t...

According to the famous definition by Benedetto Croce, ‘Ugo Foscolo was a European man and writer; even if . . . the European literary world ignored him in the complexity of his pe...

This chapter discusses how Trajan after his accession in 98 reconsolidated the imperial house. Trajan was from the Spanish province Baetica, his wife, Plotina, likely from Narbones...