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Cato, a Tragedy is a play written by Joseph Addison in 1712 and first performed on 14 April 1713. It is based on the events of the last days of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (better known as Cato the Younger) (95–46 BC), a Stoic whose deeds, rhetoric and resistance to the tyranny of Julius Caesar made him an icon of republicanism, virtue, and liberty.
Title page of the libretto of Leonardo Vinci's Catone in Utica (Rome 1728) Italian title page of the libretto of Pietro Torri's Catone in Utica (Munich 1736). Catone in Utica (Italian pronunciation: [kaˈtoːne in ˈuːtika]; transl. Cato at Utica) is an opera libretto by Metastasio, that was originally written for Leonardo Vinci's 1727 opera.
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John Philip Kemble as Cato is an 1812 portrait by the English artist Thomas Lawrence of the actor John Philip Kemble. [1] Part of the Kemble dynasty he was, along with his sister Sarah Siddons , one of the most celebrated actors of the period.
When Cato wrote, there had been four major works devoted to Roman history: Naevius and Ennius had written in Latin verse and Fabius Pictor and Alimentus had written in Greek prose. The two poetic works closely tied the history of Rome to its gods. The two prose works apparently hewed closely to the annals of the pontifex maximus.
Cato of Utica Bidding Farewell to his Son is a 1635 oil on canvas painting, housed at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille since 1872. [1] [2]It shows the aftermath of Cato the Younger's defeat by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Thapsus as told in Plutarch's Parallel Lives, with Cato breaking off from reading Plato's Dialogue on the Immortality of the Soul to say goodbye to his son just ...
De agri cultura (XV sec., Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, pluteo 51.2). De agri cultura [a] ([deː ˈaɡriː kʊlˈtuːraː]), also known as On Farming or On Agriculture, is a treatise on Roman agriculture by Cato the Elder.
They include claims that Cato was a poor student, a dubious tale that Quintus Poppaedius Silo – one of the Italian leaders during the Social war – once threatened to hang Cato out of a window unless he voiced support for Italian citizenship (Cato supposedly remained silent), and a claim that Cato asked his tutor for a sword with which to ...