Anthony Trollope — better known as a novelist — was also a devoted Ciceronian who spent years researching this two-volume biography. Volume II covers the final, turbulent years of Cicero’s life: his conflict with Antony, the Philippics, and his death at the hands of Antony’s assassins. Trollope writes with evident admiration for his subject and with the psychological acuity that distinguishes his fiction.
This free EPUB edition of Volume II is cleanly formatted for modern e-readers. Read alongside Volume I, it constitutes a rich and personal biography of the man Trollope considered the greatest Roman who ever lived.