A BŰBÁJOS VIRGILIUS - A VERGILIUS-ÉLETRAJZOK KALANDOS TORZULÁSAI
The Enchanting Virgilius - The Distortion of Virgil Biographies

Summary/Abstract: We tried to follow up the incredibly rich posterity of Vergilius in the context of the antique biographical literature, more exactly in that of the biographies of writers. As to a modest modern complement to the collection, indispensable even today, by D. Comparetti (Virgilio nel medio evo), we drew attention to a trash of the 19th century (The miraculous story of the enchanting Vergilius), the author of which „enriched” the already otherwise adventurously embellished biography of the poet with further romantic — even foolish! — inventions. Of course, not even this can damage the fame of the divines poeta.

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