Virgil

Peter Levi teases a remarkably vivid life from Virgil''s poems, a life-long study of poetry and the few facts that have come down to us through Suetonius.

Born in 70 BC, in a small village near Mantua, Publius Vergilius Maro - Virgil - grew up to be hailed as the greatest Roman poet. And although his work has influenced Western literature for two millennia, little is known about the man himself. ...