William Blake, The Pastorals of Virgil, 1821.
Featured on PDR in the essay Reading Like a Roman: Vergilius Vaticanus and the Puzzle of Ancient Book Culture
How did Virgil’s words survive into the present? And how were they once read, during his own life and the succeeding centuries? Alex Tadel explores Graeco-Roman reading culture through one of its best-preserved and most lavishly-illustrated artefacts.
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The Pastorals of Virgil
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1821
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