The Afterlife of Virgil

Virgil has always been copied, studied, imitated, and
revered as perhaps the greatest poet of the Latin language. He has been
centrally important to the transmission of the classical tradition, and has
played a unique role in European education. In recognition of the richness of
his reception the fourth conferences in the joint Warburg Institute and
Institute of Classical Studies series on the afterlife of the Classics was
devoted to the afterlife of Virgil.

This volume focuses on the reception of the Eclogues
and the Aeneid in three main areas: Italian Renaissance poetry, scholarship and
visual art; English responses to Virgil's poetry; and emerging literatures in
Eastern Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Contributors are
Giulia Perucchi, M. Elisabeth Schwab, Clementina Marsico, David Quint, Marilena
Caciorgna, Maté Vince, Hanna Paulouskaya, Tim Markey, Charles Martindale, and
Francesca Bortoletti.