Virgil

A 3rd-century Roman [[Virgil Mosaic|mosaic of Virgil]] seated between [[Clio]] and [[Melpomene]] (from [[Hadrumetum]] [Sousse], Tunisia) Publius Vergilius Maro (; 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), 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'' (or ''Bucolics''), 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'' (1374–85), describing him as standing ''on a pilere / that was of tinned yren clere'' ("on a pillar that was of bright tin-plated iron"), and in the ''Divine Comedy'', in which Virgil appears as the author's guide through Hell and Purgatory, Dante pays tribute to Virgil with the words (''Inf.'' I.86–7) ("thou art alone the one from whom I took the beautiful style that has done honour to me"). In the 20th Century, T. S. Eliot famously began a lecture on the subject "What Is a Classic?" by asserting as self-evidently true that "whatever the definition we arrive at, it cannot be one which excludes Virgil – we may say confidently that it must be one which will expressly reckon with him." Provided by Wikipedia
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  1. 21
    by Virgil
    Published 1482
    Venetiis [Venice] : per ... Renaldum de Novimagio theotonicu[m], 1482.
    [234] leaves ; 31 cm. (fol.)
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  2. 22
    by Virgil
    Published 1499
    Venezia, Philippus Pincius, 1499.
    724 p. fol.
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  3. 23
    by Virgil
    Published 1941
    Bruxelles, Office de publicité, 1941.
    83 p., 1 ℓ. incl. front. 20 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  4. 24
    by Virgil
    Published 1629
    Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn : In Verlegung Gottfried Tampachs, 1629.
    4 p. l., [8], 463 [i.e. 443], [1] p. ; 20 cm.
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  5. 25
    by Virgil
    Published 1717
    Rouen : Chez Eustache Herault, 1717.
    [14], 163, [5] p. ; 17 cm.
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  6. 26
    by Virgil
    Published 1482
    Venetiis [Venice : Baptista de Tortis, ca. 1482]
    [324] leaves ; 31 cm. (fol. in 8s)
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  7. 27
    by Virgil
    Stargard : [1675?] In Verlegung Jacob Hennings,
    [10], 828, [48] p. ; 13 cm.
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  8. 28
    by Virgil
    Published 1742
    Regensburg : gedruckt und zu finden bey Heinrich Gottfried Zunkel, 1742-1744.
    2 v. in 1. ; 21 cm.
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  9. 29
    by Virgil
    Published 1500
    Paris, Thielman Kerver [150-?]
    146 p. music. fol.
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  10. 30
    by Virgil
    Published 1500
    Paris, Thielman Kerver for Jean Petit, 1500.
    382 p. fol.
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  11. 31
    by Virgil
    [Deventer, Richardus Pafraet, s.d.]
    [36] p.
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  12. 32
    by Virgil
    Published 1849
    Vilna : Bi-defus Y. R. Rom, 609 [1849]
    xii, 36 p. ; 19 cm.
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  13. 33
    by Virgil
    Published 1561
    Parisiis : Thomæ Richardi, 1561.
    12 leaves, [8] p. ; 23 cm.
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  14. 34
    by Virgil
    Published 1521
    Leipzig, Melchior Lotter, 1521.
    74 p.
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  15. 35
    by Virgil
    Published 1939
    [Paris] Firmin-Didot et cie [1939]
    xvi p., 1 ℓ., 206 p., 1 ℓ. incl. fronts., illus. 22 cm.
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  16. 36
    by Virgil
    Published 1673
    Paris, Jacques Langlois, et Emmanuel Langlois, 1673.
    2 v. 2 pl. port. coat of arms. 26 cm.
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  17. 37
    by Virgil
    Published 1563
    Parisiis : Thomæ Richardi, 1563.
    16 numb.ℓ. ; 23 cm.
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  18. 38
    by Virgil
    Published 1495
    Impressum Venetiis [Venice] : per Bartolomeum de Za[n]js de Portesio, 1495.
    [6], 360 leaves 30 cm. (fol.)
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  19. 39
    by Virgil
    Published 1888
    Moskva : Tip. A.I. Mamontova, 1888.
    1 online resource (2 v. in 1)
    Center for Research Libraries
    Online Resource
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  20. 40
    by Virgil
    Published 1660
    Franckfurt : Jn Verlegung Johann Beyers, Buchh., 1660.
    [8], 494 p.
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