De vita Caesarum

also Lives of the Caesars, The Twelve Caesars, Vite dei Cesari

historical work · c. 121

by Suetonius

The life of Nero is the second of Busenello's classical sources for L'incoronazione di Poppea, and the more scurrilous one: Suetonius supplies the anecdote rather than the analysis.

Operas drawn from this source