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Vergilius Maro, Puplius, 70-19 BC

MANTOUE (Ancient city) LOMBARDIA
  Publius Vergilius Maro, 15 October 70 - 19 BC, known in English as Virgil or Vergil, Latin poet, is the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid, a narrative poem in twelve books that deserves to be called the Roman Empire's national epic. Born in the village of Andes (modern Pietole), near Mantua in Cisalpine Gaul (Gaul "this side", i.e., south of the Alps, present northern Italy), Vergil received his earliest schooling at Cremona and Milan. He then went to Rome to study rhetoric, medicine, and astronomy, which he soon abandoned for philosophy. In this period, while he was in the school of Siro the Epicurean, Vergil began writing poetry. A group of minor poems attributed to the youthful Vergil survive but most are spurious. One, the Catalepton (bagatelles?), consists of fourteen little poems, some of which may be Vergil’s, and another, a short narrative poem titled the Culex (the mosquito), was attributed to Vergil as early as the first century AD. [...]

This extract is cited May 2004 from the Malaspina Great Books URL below, which contains image.

• http://vergil.classics.upenn.edu/
Malaspina Great Books web page
• http://www.malaspina.com/site/person_1165.asp

• http://www.island-of-freedom.com/VIRGIL.HTM
• http://vergil.classics.upenn.edu/