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title: SUICIDE CATONE

subject date: 2017-04-01

caption: ANCIENT ROME "Cato, unwilling to survive the slavery of his homeland, kills himself by tearing his intestines." Marcus Porcius Cato of Utica (95 BC - 12 April 46 BC), also called Minor to distinguish him from his ancestor Marcus Porcius Cato, therefore called Maior, a Roman politician, soldier, writer, and monetary magistrate, an adversary of Julius Caesar, who had taken refuge in Utica, took his own life by disemboweling himself after spending his last hours in deliberate tranquility, dining and conversing with his friends, reading Plato's Phaedo. His loved ones responded to his attempts to help him by tearing himself to pieces until death came. Illustrated plate no. 36 from ''Roman History'' by Charles Rollin (January 30, 1661 – September 14, 1741), ''engraved in copperplate by the eminent Mr. Bartolomeo Pinelli Romano (November 20, 1781 – April 1, 1835), and engraved by Mr. Raffaele Persichini''. Rome, 1833.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Tunisia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

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object name: 71433

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multiplying price: 1.00

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continent: Africa

image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

licence: RM

subject century: I a.C.

subject epoch: Antica Roma

technique: Incisione

id: 39962

file name: FSNgilardi_71433.jpg

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StoicAncient RomeCatonesuicideItalyhistorynon-fictionliteraturePersichini R.Raffaele PersichiniB. PinelliBartolomeo PinelliCharles RollinCarlo RollinRollin C.philosophyStoicismCivil WarTraveltransportmailhorsecarriagestagecoachantiquitiesRisorgimentopre-unification statesNineteenth centuryneoclassicism