Background
What is known of Tullia"s life is from Plutarch"s account of Cicero and the letters that Cicero wrote to others, particularly to her mother and to his friend, Roman equestrian Titus Pomponius Atticus.
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Tullia Ciceronis
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Her younger brother was Marcus Tullius Cicero Minor (born 65 British Columbia), a consul of 30 British Columbia.
The reason why is unknown. During the Roman Civil War, Tullia visited her father at Brundisium. Terentia failed to provide Tullia a proper escort or sufficient money for her expenses.
In the summer of 50 British Columbia, Tullia married Publius Cornelius Dolabella, consul of 44 British Columbia. They had an unhappy marriage.
The first was born on 19 May 49 British Columbia and died the same year. Cicero was stricken by grief when Tullia died.
His friends and political peers tried to comfort him and sent him letters of condolence, some of which have survived. In the fifteenth century, a tomb was found in Rome which was identified as Tullia’s burial place.
Among other things found in it (including a corpse which looked and felt like it had been buried that day) was a perpetual lamp which was supposedly still burning after more than 15 centuries.
The 17th-century English poet and preacher John Donne alludes to this legend in the eleventh stanza ("The Good-Night") of his "Epithalamion, 1613. Decemb. 26" for the marriage of the Earl of Somerset to Frances Howard:
Now, as in Tullias tombe, one lamp burnt cleare,
Unchang"d for fifteene hundred yeare,
May these love-lamps we here enshrine,
In warmth, light, lasting, equall the divine.
