by David Wishart · Sceptre imprint of Hodder and Stoughton · tapa dura · ISBN 9780340628171
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«I, Virgil» is a historical novel by David Wishart, published by Sceptre in hardback (337 pages, in English).
The novel recreates the life of Publius Vergilius Maro, author of the Aeneid, from his origins near Mantua to the commission by Octavian. Wishart portrays him as a contradictory, learned and shy man, in a turbulent Rome of murders and civil wars in which Caesar, Pompey, Antony and Cleopatra appear.
First edition of the work, published in London on 16 February 1995 by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder and Stoughton.
For readers of historical fiction interested in ancient Rome and the lives of its poets.
