Marco Valenti

Marco Valenti writes on the middle Roman Republic, focusing on figures whose careers shaped Rome’s rise but who have never received a dedicated modern study.

His series Forgotten Men of the Roman Republic reconstructs each life directly from the ancient sources — Livy, Polybius, Plutarch, and the fragmentary tradition — separating what the record actually preserves from what later legend added.

Each volume follows the same three-part structure: the sources, the record, and the man. The series comprises five hardcover volumes: Marcus Valerius Corvus, Manius Curius Dentatus, Gaius Flaminius, Appius Claudius Caecus, and Gaius Duilius.