From Tivoli to Malibu.(Getty Villa)

From: Apollo | Date: February 1, 2006| Author: Hall, Michael | Copyright information

An intriguing account of Lucius Calpurnius Piso, the creator of the Villa of the Papiri at Herculaneum, describes him as 'the only child of a very rich father who was now Consul. He had hoped to make a career for himself in politics, but after a brief experience decided that he possessed little political ability; and since he was a man of great wealth, would be better out of political life than in it. Subsequently, he left Rome, bought some two hundred acres of land on the Bay of N...

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