title: Brilliant Discourse: Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome
author:  Evelyn Lincoln 
description: <DIV>&#39;Evelyn Lincoln&rsquo;s lucid, imaginative, and well-researched volume provides reassurance. . .because she has found a significant niche in which the material object and the cultural object are inextricable. . .The illustrated book becomes, in the figurative if not the literal sense, a work in three dimensions. Which in the end is true of <I>Brilliant Discourse</I> itself, a beautifully produced volume with a richly multivalent interplay of picture and word.&#39;&mdash;Leonard Barkan, <I>Art Newspaper</I><BR /></DIV> (Leonard Barkan <i>The Art Newspaper</i> 2014-11-01)
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  [About this Book](061.html#a146)
  
  
  [About the Author](065.html#a171)
  
  
  [Reviews](062.html#a148)
  
  
  [About Masters of Rome](063.html#a150)
  
  
  [Also by Colleen McCullough](064.html#a162)
  
  
  [Table of Contents](068.html#a183)
  
  
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  # [MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS](068.html#a183)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### [Maps](068.html#a183)
  
  
  [Italia: Topography & Roads](004.html#a13)
  
  
  [Forum Romanum](011.html#a54)
  
  
  [Pompey’s Dispositions against the Pirates](014.html#a57)
  
  
  [The East](020.html#a68)
  
  
  [Domus Publica](028.html#a84)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## [Illustrations](068.html#a183)
  
  
  [Gaius Julius Caesar](006.html#a42)
  
  
  [Servilia](008.html#a47)
  
  
  [Young Brutus](009.html#a49)
  
  
  [Publius Clodius](018.html#a65)
  
  
  [Quintus Lutatius Catulus