Modena. Spartacus also arrives in Modena, and at the head of his gladiators, he faces ten thousand Roman legionaries, defeats them, lays waste to the castrum, and leaves the city destroyed. It will be rebuilt in a few years and praised by Cicero in 44 BC as “a very strong, beautiful, most faithful, and most flourishing colony.” And in 39 BC, Publius Virgil writes about the local grape variety: Lambrusca, and also mentions pork.
