Catullus
![20th-century bust of Catullus<br>on the Piazza Carducci in [[Sirmione]]<ref>The bust was commissioned in 1935 by Sirmione's mayor, Luigi Trojani, and produced by the Milanese foundry Clodoveo Barzaghi with the assistance of the sculptor Villarubbia Norri (N. Criniti & M. Arduino (eds.), ''Catullo e Sirmione. Società e cultura della Cisalpina alle soglie dell'impero'' (Brescia: Grafo, 1994), p. 4).</ref>](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Catull_Sirmione.jpg)
Gaius Valerius Catullus (; 84 – 54 BC), known as Catullus (), was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic. His surviving works remain widely read due to their popularity as teaching tools and because of their personal or sexually explicit themes.
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