books.google.it - Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius,...http://books.google.it/books/about/The_Annals_The_Histories.html?hl=it&id=RHuFhUS892sC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Annals & The Histories