romans, countrymen, lovers, and tyrant killers: this year we have cassius holding caesar in place so brutus can go in for the final blow. beware the fucking ides of march 💕
ROMAN HEADS
"As evidence that the joyful tidings he brought were true, [Mago] ordered a quantity of gold rings to be piled up in the vestibule of the Senate-house."
LIV. 23 12
low key kind of devastating because ascanio is seven when he's mentioned here, and it's like,,,,augh,,,,,,the baby brother sentiment......this will not last into adulthood......
ascanio has a rabbit because I cannot. stop thinking. about this letter ippolita sent.
(Ippolita Maria Sforza, Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples: Letters and Orations, ed. and translated by Diana Robin and Lynn Lara Westwater)