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January 14, 2018
It is possible that Mark Antony met the young Cleopatra when he served under the Roman general Gabinius in 55 BCE.

May 22, 2017
Italian gem-engraver and medallist Giovanni Bernardi died on 22 May 1553 in Faenza.

August 26, 2015
Gem-engraver and medalist Filippo Rega was born on 26 August 1761 in Chieti , a central-Italian town then in the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples .

August 19, 2014
On this day in 14 CE, Gaius Octavius, known as Augustus, died in Rome.

October 18, 2013
The exhibition Augusto opens today in Rome at the Scudiere del Quirinale .