The Pharsalia is an epic poem by Lucan recounting the story of the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. Considered one of the greatest Latin poems of the Imperial period, it is presumed to be incomplete as it abruptly ends at the murder of Pompey in Alexandria in 48 BC. Because of this, the humanist scholar and professor of Grammar, Giovanni Sulpizio da Veroli added an extra eleven verses to 'complete' the work. These added verses were common in early printed volumes of the poem, like this one, printed in Venice by Melchiorre Sessa in 1511.