Tales of Verres was what they gave us to study after withdrawing the whole lot of us from the ‘O’ level. Gods! If only we’d had Ovid’s work instead of Caesar’s bloody Wars we might have got interested enough to actually enjoy Latin.
The Sicilian Vespers is definitely worth a look in a spare moment. Historically not terribly important or significant (aside from , arguably, marking the start of the Mafia). But it is just a cracking , ripping yarn.