Virgil

Local nameVirgilio
LocationPietole, Italy

Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars generally regard these works as spurious, with the possible exception of a few short pieces.

Already acclaimed in his own lifetime as a classic author, Virgil rapidly replaced Ennius and other earlier authors as a standard school text, and stood as the most popular Latin poet through late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and early modernity, exerting inestimable influence on all subsequent Western literature. Geoffrey Chaucer assigned Virgil a uniquely prominent position among all the celebrities of human history in The House of Fame, standing "on a pilere / that was of tinned yren clere", and in the Divine Comedy, in which Virgil appears as…

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil

Address 2 Strada Monasterolo, Pietole 46034, Italy

Coordinates 45°6'41.88" N 10°48'59.406" E

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