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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.

Clavis Virgiliana: or, a vocabulary of all the words in Virgil's Bucolics, Georgics, and Æneid: ... Compiled out of the best authors on Virgil, by several hands: in a method entirely new. For the use of schools, ...

The works of Virgil: translated into English verse by Mr. Dryden. In four volumes. ...

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

Ten bee-hives on wooden shelves; two men working in the foreground. Woodcut, ca. 1502.

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.

P. Virgilii Maronis opera. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Carolus Ruæus, ... jussu christianissimi regis, ad usum serenissimi Delphini. Juxta editionem novissimam parisiensem, A.D. 1722. Huic demum editioni accesserunt plurimæ novæ tabulæ ... ut etiam index accuratissimus, ...

Proposals for publishing a translation of Virgil's Æneids in blank verse. Together with a Specimen of the Performance. By N. Brady, D. D. &c.

P. Virgilii Maronis opera: or the works of Virgil: with the following improvements, Viz. I. The Words of the Author are placed in their natural and grammatical Order, in the lower Part of the Page; and such Words are supplied as by an Ellipsis are omitted, and yet are necessary to make the Connection and Sense compleat. II. The more remarkable Rhetorical Figures are pointed out, and placed at the Bottom of the Page as they occur. III. A Scanning Table, by which every Verse of the Author may be scanned, the marginal Letter opposite to each Verse referring to the same Letter in the Table. IV. An Historical and Geographical Index, giving an Account of the Persons and Places mentioned in the Author. V. The most remarkable Phrases, Periphrases and Proverbial Sayings, are render'd into proper English. For the use of schools. By John Stirling , M. A. Vicar of Great Gaddesden in Hertfordshire; and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Gordon.

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

Virgilius.

P. Virgilii Maronis opera. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Carolus Ruæus, ... jussu christianissimi regis, ad usum serenissimi Delphini. Juxta editionem novissimam parisiensem, A.D. 1722. Huic demum editioni accesserunt plurimæ novæ tabulæ ... ut etiam index accuratissimus, ...

Proposals for publishing a translation of Virgil's Æneids in blank verse. Together with a Specimen of the Performance. By N. Brady, D. D. &c.