Catullus

I found this brief background on Catullus.

Born in Verona (Gallia Cisalpina) around 82 B.C.

Father was a friend of Julius Caesar's.

Falls in love with Clodia, around 60 B.C.
Brother dies at Troy.
Joins the staff of Gaius Memmius, Governor of Bithynia, 57-56 B.C.
No poems datable after 54 B.C., so he may have died sometime around then.