About the book: 1896 / The Roman empresses, influencing their spouses, fathers, sons and brothers, developed in them not mental abilities, but sensual ones, subsequently ruined the country. No history presents us with so many strange and varied characters as the Roman one. Among the glorious, truly heroic deeds of women, there are funny courtesans or downright insane libertines, like Messalina. But the life of the Roman empresses is remarkable in that it constitutes one story, a series of successive scenes of the same drama. Edition of 1896, brought to modern spelling.