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Illustrated commentary on Suetonius's Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Publisher Christoph Plantin Netherlandish
Not on view
The scenes on the Silver Caesars were conceived by an antiquarian scholar who paired the ancient stories from Suetonius with appropriate ancient images. He was probably aided by this late sixteenth-century commentary on Suetonius’s Lives of the Twelve Caesars. The commentary links individual passages in Suetonius’s text with specific Roman coins; these same connections between stories and coins are evident on the tazze.
