Canidia (gens) Canidia (gens) The gens Canidia was a Roman family of the late Republic. It is best known from a single individual, Publius Canidius Crassus, consul "suffectus" in 40 B.C., and the chief general of Marcus Antonius. "Canidia" was also a sobriquet bestowed upon Gratidia, a Neapolitan perfumer (according to Pomponius Porphyrion) who had deserted the poet Horace. He primarily describes her in his fifth and seventeenth epodes, and the eighth satire of his first book of Satires; she is mentioned in passing at Epode 5, Satire 2.1 and Satire 2.8. The "Palinodia" in the sixteenth ode of the first book
Carmen Novoa Uruguay featured Carmen in 2 full inside pages in color regarding her poetry book Evasion/Evasion and her paintings. In 2005 Carmen held and art exhibition in the Uruguayan national library there she also launched her book Evasion/Evasion. With the sponsorship of Uruguayan born Telmo Languiller, speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Carmen brought together 24 artists and coordinated a Latin art exhibition in Parliament House, Melbourne building. This was historically recorded as it was the first art exhibition held in Parliament house then again in 2004. In 2003, Novoa organised the Spanish and Latin American exhibition of painting, sculpture and