Year of the Four Emperors
Naturally Vitellius is a character in the rash of recent novels dealing with the Year of the Four Emperors. He is in the background in Kate Quinn's novel "Daughters of Rome" (2011), and shares a section of Steven Saylor's "Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome" (2010). His fall features in M C Scott's "Rome, The Art of War" (2013), and he also appears in James Mace's two-part series, "The Year of the Four Emperors".