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Master Virgil - Master Virgil: the Author of the Aeneid as he seemed in the Middle Ages. A series of studies by J. S. Tunison. Cincinnati, 1888. 10s.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1889

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1 Among these notes we find the following. ‘ In a very rare romance, “which treateth of the life of Virgilius and of his deth, and many marveilles that he dyd in his life-time by wychecrafte and nigroman-eye, through the help of the devyls of Hell,”’ &c.; and Sir Walter goes on to tell one of the most grotesque of these legends, the mode in which Virgil renovated his youth by magical arts.