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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Franco Zeffirelli, Luchino Visconti, Torquato Tasso, Pope Julius III, Francesco Algarotti, Benvenuto Cellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Valentino Garavani, Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Gilbert and George, Dario Bellezza, Vladimir Luxuria, Poliziano, Dolce & Gabbana, Ferzan Ozpetek, Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Gianni Versace, Gioia Bruno, Mario Mieli, Marco Pannella, Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Francesca Gregorini, Tiziano Ferro, Bruno Tonioli, Damien Crosse, Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte, Giancarlo Giammetti, Dominique Phinot, Lucas Kazan, Sylvano Bussotti, Benedetta Carlini, Sibilla Aleramo, Francesco D'Macho, Renata Borgatti, Emilio Cavallini, Jacopo Bonfadio, Antonio D'Amico, Sandro Penna, Michael Lupo, Ketty Gabriele, Lina Poletti, Ennio Marchetto, Dino Cinel, Francesco Calcagno, Eva Robin's, Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, Claudio Cipelletti, Alfredo Ormando, Massimo Consoli. Excerpt: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (c. 138 BC - 78 BC), known commonly as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He had the rare distinction of holding the office of consul twice, as well as that of dictator. He was one of the canonical great men of Roman history, included in the biographical collections of leading generals and politicians, originating in the biographical compendium of famous Romans, published by Marcus Terentius Varro. In Plutarch's Sulla, in the famous series - Parallel Lives, Sulla is paired with the Spartan general and strategist Lysander. Sulla's dictatorship came during a high point in the struggle between optimates and populares, the former seeking to maintain the power of the oligarchy in the form of the Senate while the latter resorted in many cases to naked populism, culminating in Caesar's dictatorship. Sulla was a highly original, gifted and ...
