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Epistulae ad Atticum (Latin for "Letters toAtticus") is acollection of letters fromRoman politician and oratorMarcus Tullius Cicero to his close friendTitus Pomponius Atticus between 68 and 43 BCE.
Cicero and Atticus maintained a long and intimate friendship, with the biographerCornelius Nepos remarking that “Marcus Cicero loved [Atticus] above all men, so that not even his brother Quintus was dearer or more closely united to him.”[1]
Of Cicero’s 813 surviving letters, 454 are addressed to Atticus. These letters provide a candid, personal record of Cicero’s daily life and political concerns, often regarded as a form of private journal. Together with Cicero's other letters, they are considered the most reliable sources of information for the period leading up to the fall of theRoman Republic.
A notable absence of early references to these particular letters suggest that they may not have been published until the middle of the first centuryCE, significantly later than Cicero's other letters and quite some time after the deaths of both Cicero (43 BCE) and Atticus (32 BCE).[2][3]
A manuscript containing the collection, along withEpistulae ad Quintum Fratrem, andEpistulae ad Brutum, was rediscovered in 1345 byPetrarch who found it in the Chapter Library ofVerona and commissioned a copy. Although both the original manuscript and Petrarch’s copy have since been lost, the text became widely known through later editions, notably that printed in Venice byPaolo Manuzio in 1558. A copy made forColuccio Salutati is preserved today in theLaurentian Library inFlorence.[4]
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