Gladiator Italian Idol

Fight well, or else die well: such were the choices that faced the gladiators of Ancient Rome. Trained to become perfect fighting machines, their ranks included slaves, prisoners and freedmen in search of fame. Gladiator is part writing instrument, part working miniature, with obsessive craftsmanship that honours a class of combatants immortalised by the phrase, “What we do in life echoes in eternity.”