Cabinet 10: Italian Travel Books

This work was first printed in Naples about 1472, in four volumes, under the name of Pliny the Younger, but is today generally attributed to Sextus Aurelius Victor (c.320 – c.390), a Roman historian and politician. Books outlining the lives of famous men were popular in the Middle Ages, and this genre continued into the Early Modern period.

Caii Plinii Secundi Veronensis Liber Illustriu[m] Virorum (Rome: Stephanum Planck, 1492) de Beer Itb 1492 P