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Nero enjoys being married to Claudia Acte, but soon he gradually goes mad with power and sets fire to Rome. He divorces Acte, and forces the citizens to watch hour long recitals, and at one of these, accidentally kills his new pregnant wife, Poppaea Sabina .
Nero and the Burning of Rome (Italian: Nerone e Messalina) is a 1953 Italian epic historical drama film directed by Primo Zeglio and loosely based on real life events of Roman emperor Nero. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was based on the novel Nerone e Messalina (c.1949) by Harry Bluhmen.
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After the Great Fire of Rome occurred in July AD 64, it was rumored that Nero had ordered the fire to clear space for a new palace, the Domus Aurea. [6] [page needed] At the time of the fire Nero may not have been in the city but 35 miles away at his villa in Antium, [7] and possibly returned to the city before the fire was out. [8]
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This Wikipedia category page lists films featuring depictions of the Roman Emperor Nero.
The Roman elite despised Emperor Nero’s “artistic endeavors,” a historian said. Nero’s theater — where audience may have sat on ‘pain of death’ — discovered in Rome Skip to main ...