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LITERATURE

Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Cycles / Manuscripts / Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS 492 (Apollonio di Giovanni, Mid-15th century)
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book III: Aeneas recounts his journeys: Thrace, Delos, Crete, the island of the Harpies, Buthrotum, Italy / vv. 137-140: After settling on Crete, the Trojans are forced by plague to move on
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book III: Aeneas recounts his journeys: Thrace, Delos, Crete, the island of the Harpies, Buthrotum, Italy / vv. 147-171: The Trojan Penates appear to Aeneas in a dream and tell him that Italy, not Crete, was the destination indicated by the oracle

Further details

Artist or creator

Apollonio di Giovanni (Dido Master, born 1415 or 1417, died 1465) (workshop)

Date

15th century (middle)

Location

Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, cod. 492

Book, text or document (source of image)

Vergil. Works. Folio: 94r.

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