More's work, and that of contemporary historian Polydore Vergil, reflects a move from mundane medieval chronicles to a dramatic writing style ; for example, the shadowy King Richard is an outstanding, archetypal tyrant drawn from the pages of Sallust, and should be read as a meditation on power and corruption as well as a history of the reign of Richard III.

Sinon is brought to Priam, from folio 101r of the Roman Vergil

Their plan, or construction, of a pile of mountains atop which they would confront the gods is described differently according to the author ( including Homer, Vergil, and Ovid ), and occasionally changed by translators.

The Charon of Vergil in the Aeneid is particularly cruel ; according to W. F.

His name is thought to be the origin of Mantua ( Italian Mantova, the birthplace of Vergil.

There is mention of a daughter who became a nun by Vergil but nothing is known of her.

Vernet says that Silvestris, for whom this confusion was normally detrimental, probably gained from this particular confusion as he is most often credited for the commentary in Vergil ’ s Aeneid.

Zenith's chief virtue is conformity, and its religion is “ boosterism .” ( Prominent boosters in Zenith include Vergil Gunch, the coal-dealer ; Sidney Finkelstein, the ladies '- ready-to-wear buyer for Parcher & Stein's department-store ; Professor Joseph K. Pumphrey, owner of the Riteway Business College and “ instructor in Public Speaking, Business English, Scenario Writing, and Commercial Law ;” and T. Cholmondeley " Chum " Frink, a famous poet of dubious talent.

Vergil is sometimes referred to in contemporary documents as Polydore Vergil Castellensis or Castellen, and it has sometimes been assumed that he was a kinsman of his patron, Cardinal Adriano Castellesi.

The work is notable for the immense industry that went into its compilation, and the range of ancient and modern writers on which Vergil was able to draw.

The flowing cursive Italic hand in which the rest of the manuscript is written, however, is clearly that of Vergil.

A possible explanation is that Vergil left it in the care of Veterani, who inscribed the colophon to associate it with his other treasures so that it would not be lost or damaged during the Papal invasion in Urbino in 1516.

It is therefore probable that Vergil asked Veterani to prepare the work for a printer or to make a fair copy.

The latter is the more probable possibility: Vergil would probably have wanted to present a fine manuscript to Henry VIII instead of a printed book and since Veterani was the most famous copyist of the time it would make sense that Vergil asked him to do it: however, no such copy by Veterani is known.

In continental Europe, Vergil is principally remembered for the Inventoribus Rerum and the Adagia: these are the works which secured his reputation before he ever came to England, and which he himself regarded as his masterpieces, writing " I, Polydore, was the first of the Romans to treat of these two matters ".

There is a long tradition of histories being written or published under official patronage: they include, for example, the Anglica Historia ( drafted by 1513 and published in 1534 ), a history of England written by Polydore Vergil at the request of King Henry VII ; and William Camden's Annales Rerum Gestarum Angliae et Hiberniae Regnate Elizabetha ( 1615-1627 ), a history of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.

Of the ancient authors, Cocytus was mentioned by Vergil, Homer, Cicero, Aeschylus and Plato, among others.

Varro lists Luna among twelve deities who are vital to agriculture, as does Vergil in a different list of twelve, in which he refers to Luna and Sol as clarissima mundi lumina, the world's clearest sources of light.

In publishing it, Vergil reflected a growing interest in post-classical texts among German and Italian scholars.

The portraits show Vergil sitting on a chair between a lectern and a locked chest.

Early modern writers, such as Polydore Vergil and Matthew Parker, the Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, also utilised the Historia, and his works were used by both Protestant and Catholic sides in the Wars of Religion.

Other than the historian Livy, the most remarkable writers of the period were the poets Vergil, Horace, and Ovid.

While this edition was similar to the manuscript, the changes were too rigorous to be described as rewriting ; rather Vergil made a fresh start with the manuscript as a guideline.

The most famous mock-heroic poems in French were Le Vergile Travesti ( The disguised Vergil ) by Paul Scarron ( 1648 – 52 ) and The Maid of Orleans by Voltaire ( 1730 ).

After Sparda's death, Dante and his twin brother Vergil were raised by their human mother, Eva.

When Dante and Vergil were children, the family was attacked by demons, resulting in Eva's death.

* April 18-Polydore Vergil, Tudor historian ( born c. 1470 )

Polydore Vergil ( c. 1470 – 1555 ), in his De Rerum Inventoribus, writes that it was customary to make the Sign of the Cross over one's mouth, since " alike deadly plague was sometime in yawning, wherefore men used to fence themselves with the sign of the cross ... which custom we retain at this day.

Polidoro Virgili, commonly latinised as Polydorus Vergilius, or anglicised as Polydore Vergil ( or Virgil ), and often known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino ( c. 1470 – 18 April 1555 ) was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat who spent most of his life in England.

But the rediscovery of the works of Tacitus during the Renaissance allowed Polydore Vergil to reintroduce her into British history as " Voadicea " in 1534.

In the Aeneid ( published circa 17 BC ), Vergil claims the descent of Augustus Caesar's Julian clan from the hero Aeneas through his son Ascanius, also called Iulus.

Jerome used a quote from Vergil — “ The horror and the silences terrified their souls ” — to describe the horror of hell.

So, for example, the 16th-century humanist scholar Polydore Vergil famously rejected the claim that Arthur was the ruler of a post-Roman empire, found throughout the post-Galfridian medieval " chronicle tradition ", to the horror of Welsh and English antiquarians.

Latin was the language of the ancient Romans, but it was also the lingua franca of Europe throughout the middle ages, so Latin literature includes not only Roman authors like Cicero, Vergil, Ovid and Lucretius, but also includes European writers after the fall of the Empire from religious writers like St. Augustine ( 354 – 430 AD ), to secular writers like Francis Bacon ( 1561-1626 ) and Spinoza ( 1632 – 1677 ).

Death of Laocoön from the Vatican Vergil.

Polydore Vergil and Thomas More expanded on this portrayal, emphasising Richard's outward physical deformities as a sign of his inwardly twisted mind.

Publius Vergilius Maro ( October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC ), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

* April 18 – Polydore Vergil, English historian ( b. 1470 )

* Wolfgang Kofler, Aeneas und Vergil.

Commentary on the Aeneid of Vergil.

* August – Polydore Vergil completes De inventoribus rerum, the first modern history of inventions.

The national epic of Rome, the Aeneid of Vergil, tells the story of how the Trojan prince Aeneas came to Italy.

In the novel, renegade biotechnologist Vergil Ulam creates simple biological computers based on his own lymphocytes.

Polydore Vergil tells of how the young Joan of Kent, Countess of Salisbury – allegedly the king's favourite at the time – accidentally dropped her garter at a ball at Calais.

He had to obtain the approval of King Henry VIII of England, the Pope through the intermediary Polydore Vergil, and the Bishop of Ely to suppress the religious hospital and convert it to a college.

In addition, he unsuccessfully attempted to write an epic about Peter the Great, to be based on the Aeneid by Vergil.

Polydore Vergil, in his Anglica Historia ( circa 1513 ), specifies that Tyrrell was the murderer, stating that he " rode sorrowfully to London " and committed the deed with reluctance, upon Richard III's orders, and that Richard himself spread the rumours of the princes ' death in the belief that it would discourage rebellion.

The goal of Gesta Danorum was as Saxo writes " to glorify our fatherland ," which he accomplishes on the model of the Aeneid by Vergil.

* Pallas ( Vergil, Aeneid 11. 89 )

After the despatch of Richard, who had gone into battle crowned, Polydore Vergil records that the fallen coronet was retrieved and placed by Lord Stanley on his stepson ’ s head before his cheering troops, thereby emphasing the critical role the Stanleys had played in bringing Henry Tudor to the throne.

Ceres was thus the patron goddess of Rome's written laws ; the poet Vergil later calls her legifera Ceres ( Law-bearing Ceres ), a translation of Demeter's Greek epithet, thesmophoros.