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Virgil (70-19 BC)
The works of Virgil ... / ... translated by Christopher Pitt ... , Joseph Warton ... ; v. 2 1778
22.0 x 3.0 cm (book measurement (inventory)) | RCIN 1055031
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Virgil was a Roman poet active in the first century BC. He is perhaps best known for his epic poem the Aeneid, which recounted the travels of Aeneas, a Trojan prince, from his flight from Troy after its destruction by the Greeks to his eventual arrival in Italy and founding of Rome. He is also known for his two pastoral poems, the Eclogues and the Georgics.
The translator of this edition of Virgil's works was Christopher Pitt (1699-1748), a poet in his own right, and notable translator. He produced a fine metrical translation of Lucan's Pharsalia while still at Oxford, but it was never published, given the existing version by the Poet Laureate Nicholas Rowe; the manuscript is now lost. His translation of VIrgil's Aeneid into heroic couplets was completed in 1738, and published in 1740 with a dedication to Frederick Prince of Wales. Joseph Warton used it in the first and subsequent editions of his Works of Virgil, citing both its faitfulness to the original and its poetic merits. This is a copy of Warton's 3rd edition.Provenance
From the library of George III at Windsor
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22.0 x 3.0 cm (book measurement (inventory))
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[Works. English & Latin]
