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Thieves being tortured by snakes in the 8th circle of Hell, watched by Dante and Virgil. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

Dante and Virgil watching Bertrand de Born hold his head away from his body to illustrate the spreading of disunity. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

Virgil and Dante sitting on the back of Geryon to be transported from the 8th to the 7th circle of Hell. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

Virgil and A. Pollio deep in conversation above a bustling town and harbour, Saloninius (Pollio's infant son) lies in a cradle at their feet. Woodcut after Virgil.

The giant Antaeus carries Virgil and Dante to the Ninth Circle of Hell. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

Poets: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Pinelli etching Virgil and Dante, the plate being examined by monsters who are watched on the right by Virgil and Dante. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

Dante and Virgil watching heretics in hell ripping their bodies apart as punishment for schism. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

The death of infants: a skeleton representing Death grabs and eats infants who die innocent of vice but unendowed with the theological virtues. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

Incipiant silvae cum primum surgere : mondo vegetale e nomenclatura della flora di Virgilio / Gigliola Maggiulli.

Vergil : a census of printed editions, 1469-1500 / edited by Martin Davies & John Goldfinch ; introduction by R.C. Alston ; foreword by Lotte Hellinga.

Plague in Phrygia. Engraving by F. Aquila after Raphael after Virgil.

The surgeon cannot extract an arrow from the thigh of Aeneas; Venus brings a medicinal herb to accomplish what the surgeon cannot. Oil painting after Virgil.

Plague in Phrygia. Engraving by M. Raimondi after Raphael after Virgil.

An apothecary grinding a mixture with his pestle and mortar, amidst a working town. Woodcut by Brant(?).

Opera Vergiliana docte et familiariter exposita: docte quidem Bucolica et Georgica a Servio, Donato, Mancinello et Probo nuper addito / cum adnotationibus Beroaldinis. Aeneis vero ab iisdem praeter Mancinellum et Probum et ab Augustino Datho in ejus principio: opusculorum praeterea quaedam ab Domitio Calderino. Familiariter vero omnia ... ab Jodoco Badio Ascensio ... Omnia ... et Aeneis: quoque tertius decimus a Mapheo Vegio liber: expolitissimis figuris et imaginibus illustrata.

Catalecta Virgilii & aliorum poëtarum Latinorum veterum poematia: cum commentariis Iosephi Scaligeri Ivl. Caes. Fil

Virgilius.

Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis

Publii Virgilii Maronis opera: ad lectiones probatiores diligenter emendata, ... cura Joannis Hunter, ..

The works of Virgil translated into English prose, ... With the Latin text and order of construction in the same page; and ... a very great number of notes entirely new. For the use of schools as well as of private gentlemen. In two volumes

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Catalecta Virgilii & aliorum poëtarum Latinorum veterum poematia: cum commentariis Iosephi Scaligeri Ivl. Caes. Fil

Virgilius.

Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis

Publii Virgilii Maronis opera: ad lectiones probatiores diligenter emendata, ... cura Joannis Hunter, ..

The works of Virgil translated into English prose, ... With the Latin text and order of construction in the same page; and ... a very great number of notes entirely new. For the use of schools as well as of private gentlemen. In two volumes