Trivia

Requested on his deathbed that "The Aeneid" be destroyed.

Buried by his own request at his villa in Naples, under the epitaph, "Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua, rura, duces" ("Mantua gave me birth, Calabria took me away, and now Naples holds me; I sang of pastures, farms, leaders").

Was a profound influence on later poets, especially Dante Alighieri, who portrayed Vergil as his guide (and the symbol of human reason) in "The Divine Comedy".