Remains of the house of the banker Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, Pompeii mb-width 145 Plate 219 from chapter 9

Plate 219 from chapter 9 of Gleanings of natural history

Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia (crowned King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy at Turin in 1861) shields an anxious Italy as she awaits the outcome of the battle

Rolland (1866-1944) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915

(7 June 1884)

Remains of the house of the banker Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, Pompeii mb-width 145 Plate 219 from chapter 9Remains of the house of the banker Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, Pompeii, (1902). The Tablinum, seen from the Atrium. The house was partially destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. Illustration from 'The World's History, The Mediterranean Nations, by Dr H F Helmolt, Volume IV, published by William Heinemann, (London, 1902).