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Publius Vergilius Maro
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Image generated by ChatGPT: Dante, aged 35, surrounded by Virgil as author of the Eclogues (aged 31), Georgics (aged 41), and Aeneid (aged 51), alongside Virgil as the character in Dante’s poem (aged 51).
Works & passages
Eclogues
Works & passages
Georgics
Works & passages
Aeneid
Dante's Text
Virgil in the poem
Reviewed references to the person. These do not by themselves establish a quotation from a work.
- Inferno 1.79“Or se' tu quel Virgilio e quella fonte
- Inferno 19.61Allor Virgilio disse: “Dilli tosto:
- Inferno 23.124Allor vid' io maravigliar Virgilio
- Inferno 29.4Ma Virgilio mi disse: “Che pur guate?
- Inferno 31.133Virgilio, quando prender si sentio,
- Purgatorio 2.61E Virgilio rispuose: “Voi credete
- Purgatorio 3.74Virgilio incominciò, “per quella pace
- Purgatorio 6.67Pur Virgilio si trasse a lei, pregando
- Purgatorio 7.7Io son Virgilio; e per null' altro rio
- Purgatorio 8.64L'uno a Virgilio e l'altro a un si volse
- Purgatorio 10.53per ch'io varcai Virgilio, e fe'mi presso,
- Purgatorio 13.79Virgilio mi venìa da quella banda
- Purgatorio 19.28“O Virgilio, Virgilio, chi è questa?”
- Purgatorio 21.14Noi ci volgemmo sùbiti, e Virgilio
- Purgatorio 21.101visse Virgilio, assentirei un sole
- Purgatorio 21.103Volser Virgilio a me queste parole
- Purgatorio 21.125è quel Virgilio dal qual tu togliesti
- Purgatorio 22.10quando Virgilio incominciò: “Amore,
- Purgatorio 23.130Virgilio è questi che così mi dice,”
- Purgatorio 24.119per che Virgilio e Stazio e io, ristretti,
- Purgatorio 27.20e Virgilio mi disse: “Figliuol mio,
- Purgatorio 27.118Virgilio inverso me queste cotali
- Purgatorio 27.126in me ficcò Virgilio li occhi suoi,
- Purgatorio 29.56al buon Virgilio, ed esso mi rispuose
- Purgatorio 30.46per dicere a Virgilio: “Men che dramma
- Purgatorio 30.49Ma Virgilio n'avea lasciati scemi
- Purgatorio 30.50di sé, Virgilio dolcissimo patre,
- Purgatorio 30.51Virgilio a cui per mia salute die'mi;
- Purgatorio 30.55“Dante, perché Virgilio se ne vada,
- Paradiso 17.19mentre ch'io era a Virgilio congiunto
- Paradiso 26.118Quindi onde mosse tua donna Virgilio,
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About & sources
Names, text and evidence
Names found in the source material
Forms of the work titles
Eclogues
Georgics
Aeneid
Edition and evidence sources
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- Eclogues · J. B. Greenough, The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Virgil, Boston: Ginn and Company, 1881. Edition source ↗
- Georgics · J. B. Greenough, The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Virgil, Boston: Ginn and Company, 1881. Edition source ↗
- Aeneid · J. B. Greenough, The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Virgil, Boston: Ginn and Company, 1881. Edition source ↗