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Contents List of Illustrations Preface Rules of the Edition Acknowledgments Introduction List of Abbreviations I. Virgil the Poet 000 A. Virgil on Himself 000 1. Georgics 000 2. Letter to Augustus 000 B. Contemporary Response 000 1. Lucius Varius Rufus 000 2. Horace 000 3. Agrippa 000 4. Propertius 000 5. Domitius Marsus 000 C. Later Influence and Importance 000 1. Ovid 000 2. ¿Ille ego qui quondam gracili modulatus avena¿ 000 3. Appendix Vergiliana 000 4. Seneca the Elder 000 5. Velleius Paterculus 000 6. Quintus Remmius Palaemon 000 7. Seneca the Younger 000 8. Pliny the Elder 000 9. Lucan 000 10. Calpurnius Siculus 000 11. First Einsiedeln Eclogue 000 12. Laus Pisonis 000 13. Petronius 000 14. Columella 000 15. Pompeian Graffiti 000 16. Masada Papyrus 000 17. Vindolanda Writing-Tablets 000 18. Silius Italicus 000 19. Quintilian 000 20. Martial 000 21. Statius 000 22. Tacitus 000 23. Florus 000 24. Pliny the Younger 000 25. Juvenal 000 26. Apuleius 000 27. Aulus Gellius 000 28. Avienus 000 29. Ammianus Marcellinus 000 30. Jerome 000 31. Augustine 000 32. Claudian 000 33. Sidonius Apollinaris 000 34. Ennodius 000 35. Cassiodorus 000 36. Gregory of Tours 000 37. Isidore 000 38. Aldhelm 000 39. Alcuin 000 40. Ermoldus Nigellus 000 41. Welsh Battle of the Trees 000 42. Ermenrich of Ellwangen 000 43. Modus Ottinc 000 44. Fulbert of Chartres 000 45. Donizo 000 46. Peter Abelard 000 47. Otto of Freising 000 48. ¿Archpoet¿ 000 49. Walter of Châtillon 000 50. Alan of Lille 000 51. Chrétien de Troyes 000 52. Jacob van Maerlant 000 53. Dante 000 54. Petrarch 000 55. Chaucer 000 56. Christine de Pizan 000 57. Maffeo Vegio 000 D. Virgil as Performed or Declaimed 000 1. Tacitus 000 2. Suetonius 000 3. Probus 000 4. Lucian 000 5. Macrobius 000 6. Performances of the Eclogues 000 7. Servius 000 8. Augustine 000 9. Fulgentius 000 10. Venantius Fortunatus 000 11. Virgil and Musical Notation 000 II. Biography: Images of Virgil 000 A. Vitae 000 1. Vita Suetonii vulgo Donatiana 000 2. Jerome 000 3. Vita Servii 000 4. Vita Focae 000 5. Vita Philargyrii I 000 6. Vita Philargyrii II 000 7. Vita Probi 000 8. Expositio Donati 000 9. Expositio Monacensis I 000 10. Expositio Monacensis II 000 11. Periochae Bernenses I 000 12. Periochae Bernenses II 000 13. Periochae Gudianae 000 14. Periochae Tegernseenses 000 15. Periochae Vaticanae 000 16. Vita Aurelianensis 000 17. Vita Bernensis I 000 18. Vita Bernensis II 000 19. Vita Bernensis III 000 20. Vita Gudiana I 000 21. Vita Gudiana II 000 22. Vita Gudiana III 000 23. Vita Leidensis 000 24. Vita Monacensis I 000 25. Vita Monacensis II 000 26. Vita Monacensis III 000 27. Vita Monacensis IV 000 28. Vita Noricensis I 000 29. Vita Noricensis II 000 30. Vita Parisina II 000 31. Vita Vaticana I 000 32. Vita Vaticana II 000 33. Vita Vossiana 000 34. Zono de¿ Magnalis 000 35. Domenico di Bandino 000 36. Sicco Polenton I 000 37. Donatus auctus 000 38. Sicco Polenton II 000 39. Vita Laurentiana 000 B. Virgil¿s Birthday: Ides of October as Sacred 000 1. Pliny the Younger 000 2. Martial 000 3. Ausonius 000 C. Virgil¿s Remains and Grave 000 1. Epitaph 000 2. Statius 000 3. Martial 000 4. Pliny the Younger 000 5. Aelius Donatus 000 6. Vita Probi 000 7. Jerome 000 8. Sidonius Apollinaris 000 9. Eusthenius 000 10. Pompilianus 000 11. Radulfus Tortarius 000 12. John of Salisbury 000 13. Conrad of Querfurt 000 14. Gervase of Tilbury 000 15. Dante 000 16. Sequence about St. Paul 000 17. Petrarch 000 18. Itinerary of a Certain Englishman 000 19. Boccaccio 000 D. The Burning of the Aeneid 000 1. Ovid 000 2. Pliny the Elder 000 3. Gaius Sulpicius Apollinaris 000 4. Aulus Gellius 000 5. Aelius Donatus 000 6. Macrobius 000 E. Autograph Manuscripts of Virgil 000 1. Pliny the Elder 000 2. Quintilian 000 3. Aulus Gellius 000 F. Virgilian Images 000 1. Ancient Textual References to Portraits of Virgil 000 2. Late Antique Textual Reference to Portraits of Virgil 000 3. Late Antique Virgilian Imagery 000 4. Flabellum of Tournus 000 5. Virgil on a Wooden Bowl 000 6. Illuminated Aeneid 000 7. Virgil in Mantua 000 8. Virgil and Dante 000 9. Virgil and Petrarch 000 10. Portraits of Prophetic Virgil and the Sibyl 000 11. Virgil as Magician 000 12. Virgil in the Basket 000 13. Virgilian Imagery in Non-Virgilian Texts 000 14. Conclusion 000 G. Virgil as Philosopher and Compendium of Knowledge 000 1. Seneca the Younger 000 2. Macrobius 000 3. Servius 000 4. Bernardus Silvestris 000 5. Old French Roman de Thèbes 000 6. John of Salisbury 000 7. Alexander Neckam 000 8. Boccaccio 000 H. Virgil as Worthy of Veneration and Divine 000 1. Tacitus 000 2. Macrobius 000 3. Servius 000 III. Virgil¿s Texts and Their Uses 000 A. Virgilian Cento 000 1. Petronius 000 2. Hosidius Geta and African Centos 000 3. Tertullian 000 4. Ausonius 000 5. Proba 000 6. Pomponius 000 7. Mavortius 000 8. De verbi incarnatione 000 9. Thierry of St. Trond 000 B. Virgilian Parody 000 1. Early Detractors 000 2. Cornificius Gallus 000 3. Servius 000 C. Eclogues 4 000 1. Lactantius 000 2. Constantine I 000 3. Augustine 000 4. Jerome 000 5. Christian of Stavelot 000 6. Abelard 000 7. Jean de Meun 000 8. Dante 000 D. Orpheus 000 1. Ovid 000 2. Martial 000 3. Boethius 000 4. Fulgentius 000 5. Bernardus Silvestris 000 E. Dido 000 1. Ovid 000 2. Tertullian 000 3. Bobbio Epigrams, No. 45 000 4. Macrobius 000 5. Jerome 000 6. Augustine 000 7. ¿O decus, O Libye regnum¿ 000 8. ¿Anna soror ut quid mori¿ 000 9. Dante 000 10. Petrarch 000 11. Boccaccio 000 12. Chaucer 000 F. Descent into the Underworld 000 1. Servius 000 2. Bernardus Silvestris 000 G. Golden Bough 000 1. Macrobius 000 2. Servius 000 3. Bernardus Silvestris 000 4. John of Salisbury 000 H. Florilegia 000 I. Old French Roman d¿Énéas 000 1. Dido Episode 000 2. Golden Bough Episode 000 J. Heinrich von Veldeke 000 1. Dido 000 2. Journey to the Underworld 000 K. Wanderings of Aeneas 000 1. Historical Prologue 000 2. Aeneas and Dido 000 3. Golden Bough 000 L. Virgil in Medieval Icelandic 000 1. Trojan Horse 000 2. Serpentine Simile 000 3. Trojan Horse (Rationalized) 000 4. Thor Substituted for Jupiter 000 IV. Commentary Tradition 000 A. Tradition of Commentary before the Fourth Century 000 1. Q. Caecilius Epirota 000 2. C. Iulius Hyginus 000 3. Q. Asconius Pedianus 000 4. Lucius Annaeus Cornutus 000 5. Marcus Valerius Probus 000 6. Velius Longus 000 7. Aulus Gellius 000 8. Aemilius Asper 000 B. Servius 000 1. Comment on Aeneid 4 000 2. Allegory 000 C. Macrobius 000 1. Rhetorical Devices 000 2. Oratorical Skill 000 3. Greek Models 000 4. Roman Models 000 5. Knowledge of Astronomy and Philosophy 000 6. Pontifical Law 000 7. Augural Law 000 D. Other Commentators of the Fourth or Fifth Century 000 1. Iunius Philargyrius 000 2. Aelius Donatus 000 3. Tiberius Claudius Donatus 000 E. Priscian 000 F. Fulgentius 000 G. Virgilius Maro Grammaticus 000 H. Scholia Bernensia on Eclogues 4 000 I. Old Irish Glosses on Philargyrius 000 1. Comment on Eclogues 4.19 000 2. Comment on Eclogues 4.28 000 3. Comment on Eclogues 4.34 000 4. Comment on Eclogues 4.40 000 5. Comment on Eclogues 4.42 000 6. Comment on Eclogues 4.44 000 7. Comment on Eclogues 4.45 000 8. Comment on Eclogues 4.50 000 J. Carolingian Commentary on Eclogues 6 000 K. Carolingian Glosses on Aeneid 4 000 L. Old High German Glosses 000 M. Introduction to the Latin Homer 000 N. Introductions to the Eclogues 000 1. Argumenta 000 2. Accessus 000 O. ¿Master Anselm¿ 000 P. Platonizing Directions in Virgilian Allegory 000 1. Opening Notes 000 2. Glosses on the Aeneid 000 Q. (Pseudo-)Bernardus Silvestris 000 1. Preface to Commentary on Aeneid 000 2. Comment on Aeneid 1.52 000 3. Comment on Aeneid 1.412, 446 000 4. Comment on Aeneid 2.1 000 5. Comment on Aeneid 3 000 6. Comment on Aeneid 4 000 7. Comment on Aeneid 5.1, 114 000 8. Comment on Aeneid 6.6 000 9. Comment on Aeneid 6.13, 34 000 10. Comment on Aeneid 6.42 000 11. Comment on Aeneid 6.455 000 12. Introduction to Martianus Capella 2.70¿86, 93¿104, 114¿24 000 R. Conrad of Hirsau 000 S. John of Garland 000 1. Parisiana poetria 1.124¿34 000 2. Parisiana poetria 1.394¿405 000 3. Parisiana poetria 2.87¿123 000 T. Nicholas Trevet 000 U. Aeneid Commentary of Mixed Type 000 1. Opening of Book 6 000 2. Orpheus and Eurydice 000 3. Golden Bough 000 V. Cristoforo Landino 000 1. Introduction on the Nature of Poetry 000 2. On Allegorical Interpretation 000 3. Dido and Aeneas 000 4. Golden Bough 000 W. Virgilian Obscenity 000 1. Quintilian 000 2. Aulus Gellius 000 3. Ausonius 000 4. Diomedes 000 5. Marius Plotius Sacerdos 000 6. Macrobius 000 7. Servius 000 X. Allegorical Topoi 000 1. Evolution of Civilization 000 2. Vita contemplativa, voluptuosa, and activa 000 3. Development of a Human Life 000 4. Physics and Philosophy 000 5. Eclogues 1¿3 and the Three Natural Lives 000 V. Virgilian Legends 000 A. Virgil the Magician 000 1. Sortes Vergilianae 000 2. John of Salisbury 000 3. John of Alta Silva 000 4. Conrad of Querfurt 000 5. Gervase of Tilbury 000 6. Alexander Neckam 000 7. Wolfram von Eschenbach 000 8. Perlesvaus 000 9. Dante 000 10. Johannes Gobi Junior 000 11. Boccaccio 000 B. Virgil and Magic Statues 000 1. Apocalypsis Goliae 000 2. Cino da Pistoia 000 3. ¿On the Perfection of Life¿ 000 4. Salvation of Rome 000 5. Huguccio of Pisa 000 6. ¿About a Statue at Rome¿ 000 C. Virgil in the Basket and Virgil¿s Revenge 000 1. Guiraut de Calanson 000 2. ¿Deeds of the Romans¿ 000 3. Juan Ruiz 000 4. Giovanni Sercambi 000 5. Virgilessrímur 000 6. Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini 000 7. Virgil and Ovid as Rivals 000 D. Visions Involving Virgil 000 1. Anonymous of Ferrières 000 2. John of Salerno 000 3. Rodulfus Glaber 000 4. Everhelm (and Onulf) 000 5. Hildebert of Lavardin 000 6. Vision of Virgil in Hell 000 7. Georgian Passion of St. Pansophios of Alexandria 000 E. Virgil in Preaching 000 1. Exemplum Invoking Virgil 000 2. John of Lathbury 000 F. Fusions of Lives and Legends 000 1. Vincent of Beauvais 000 2. John of Wales 000 3. Conrad of Mure 000 4. (Pseudo-)Walter Burley 000 G. Alexander of Telese 000 1. On Aeneas¿s Founding and Virgil¿s Lordship of Naples 000 2. Address to King Roger 000 H. L¿image du monde 000 1. First Redaction 000 2. Second Redaction 000 I. Jans Enikel 000 J. Adenet le Roi 000 K. Oracle of the Three Letters 000 1. Marvels of Virgil 000 2. Historiae Carthaginensium 000 L. Noirons li Arabis 000 M. Renart le contrefait 000 1. Virgil¿s Wonders and Virgil in the Basket 000 2. Virgil¿s Revenge 000 N. Cronaca di Partenope 000 O. Antonio Pucci 000 P. Jean d¿Outremeuse 000 Q. Virgil¿s Journey to the Magnetic Mountain 000 R. Bonamente Aliprandi 000 S. Baena Songbook 000 1. No. 38 000 2. No. 226 000 3. No. 227 000 4. No. 533 000 5. No. 377 000 T. Gutierre Díaz de Games 000 U. Life of Virgil 000 V. ¿An Olde Deceyte of Vergilius¿ 000 List of Contributors 000 Text Credits 000 Index 000 <new page r/v> <set drop folio> <comp: please add page numbers in proof> Illustrations 1. Miniature to illustrate Aeneid 4 (Dido and Aeneas, Aeneas and Dido¿s outing, Aeneas¿s departure, suicide of Dido) 000 2. Miniature to illustrate Aeneid 6 (Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl, Burial of Misenus, Twin doves reveal the golden bough, Aeneas in the underworld) 000 3. John of Garland, Parisiana poetria, chapter 2, ¿Rota Virgilii¿ 000 4. The three columns and three styles of Virgil¿s Wheel (Latin) 000 5. The three columns and three styles of Virgil¿s Wheel (English) 000 6. Rota Virgilii 000 7. Virgil¿s Wheel 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Virgil -- Criticism and interpretation -- History.
Latin poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Rome -- In literature.