A soldier is destroyed by his obsessive love for the fierce, free Gypsy woman Carmen. Mérimée's novella that inspired the opera.
Books mentioned in Carmen (2)
Bellum Hispaniense: “According to my own surmise, founded on the text of the anonymous author of the _Bellum Hispaniense_, and on certain information culled from the excellent library owned by the Duke of Ossuna, I believed the site of the memorable struggle in which Caesar played double or quits, once and for all,…”
Commentaries by Julius Caesar: “I had hired a guide and a couple of horses at Cordova, and had started on my way with no luggage save a few shirts, and Caesar's _Commentaries_.”