Illustrations of information furnished by medals, small bronzes, &c. / by F. Parkes Weber.

  • Weber, Frederick Parkes, 1863-1962.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Illustrations of information furnished by medals, small bronzes, &c. / by F. Parkes Weber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    discovery by an Englishman (as narrated by Gervase of Tilbury in his Otia Imperialia) of the poet’s bones, inside a mountain, in the reign of Roger of Sicily {vide Domenico Comparetti, Vergil in the Middle Ages, Fig. 4. Fig. 5. English translation by E. F. M. Benecke, London, 1895, p. 273). I am indebted to Mr. G. F. Hill for information on the subject. On the whole question of the tomb of Virgil see also R. T. Gunther, Pausilypon, &c. (Oxford University Press, 1913). An earlier date than the fifteenth century can hardly be admitted for