A comprehensive study showing that the Roman poet Virgil played an unexpectedly significant role in the shaping of Renaissance Venetian culture. The text argues that Virgil's poetry became a best-seller because it confirmed the specific values of its Venetian readers.
The story of how the Aeneid has been approached by various postclassical authors - including Shakespeare and Milton - not as an endorsement of the ideals of their societies, but as a model for poems that probed and challenged dominant values, just as Virgil himself had done centuries before.
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