Caligula is famous as a mad and extravagant tyrant. However, hardly anyone has heard of one of his biggest and weirdest frills - the floating palaces. “He has overwhelmed all wasters with the size of profligacy. He invented a new type of bathhouse, the most bizarre types of dishes and meals. He ba
Even to the king himself the idea of coronating his son, Sigismund Augustus, while he was still alive, seemed absurd. The subjects also did not want to hear about any vivente rege elections. Who, then, pushed the whole thing? And what for? From the moment of the birth of her only son, Zygmunt
They lived by the Vistula and the Oder at the beginning of our era. They were mentioned by Roman writers from the 1st and 2nd centuries - Pliny the Elder, Tacitus, Ptolemy Claudius. They wrote that a large number of people lived on the Vistula River, called the Wenedowie. What was the origin of this
Portrait of Giacomo Casanova Remained famous as an incurable womanizer, Giacomo Casanova he had, in addition to women, another great passion: gambling. Nothing unusual actually for a doc Venetian like him, since vice was an integral part of the charm of the splendid lagoon city, whose inhab