Quo Vadis is a historical novel about the love between the young Christian woman Ligia and the Roman patrician Marcus Vinicius, set against the historical events that unfolded during the reign of Emperor Nero, in AD 64.

The novel was first published in book form in 1896 and has been translated into more than 50 languages. It was for this work that Henryk Sienkiewicz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905.