In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phillip
Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I am not familiar with the name Mantovano as it relates to Virgil. Can
you tell me the connection?
Tennyson so addressed Vergil, using the modern Italian form of the
ethnic:
I salute thee, Mantovano,
I that loved thee since
Colleagues,
There are no doubt several possibilities to explain *Mantovano*. He was
born in Mantua, so the epithet is appropriate. But the allusion that
seems to me most attractive is in the final stanza of Tennyson's *To
Virgil* --
I salute thee, Mantovano,
I that loved thee since my day
I am not familiar with the name Mantovano as it relates to Virgil. Can
you tell me the connection?
Matovano is the Italian for Mantuan. The allusion is to the tenth and
last stanza of Tennyson's poem To Virgil, written at the request of the
Mantuans for the nineteenth centenary of the poet's
Sorry, I mistranscribed the title of Tennyson's poem. It should be:
TO VIRGIL
WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF THE MANTUANS FOR THE NINETEENTH CENTENARY OF
VIRGIL'S DEATH
(Imagine the lines centred.)
Simon Cauchi
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