In modern times, two manuscripts of the Agricola are preserved in the Library of the Vatican. It was eventually secured by the humanist Niccolò de' Niccoli. The text survived in a single codex ascertained by Poggio Bracciolini to be in a German monastery ( Hersfeld Abbey). It also covers the geography and ethnography of ancient Britain. The work recounts the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general and Governor of Britain from AD 77/78 – 83/84. On the life and character of Julius Agricola) is a book by the Roman writer, Tacitus, written c. AD 98. The Agricola ( Latin: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, lit. Book by Tacitus on the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola
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