Virgil’s work has inspired countless other poets, from Ovid to Dante, who cast Virgil as the poet’s guide through Hell and Purgatory up to the very gates of Paradise in The Divine Comedy, and beyond. In English literature his influence can be seen in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene and John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
How did Virgil influence the world?
Where did Virgil grow up?
Virgil was born of peasant stock in northern Italy, and his love of the Italian countryside and of the people who cultivated it colours all his poetry. The Georgics is a superb plea for the restoration of traditional agricultural life in Italy and contains practical instruction about plowing, growing trees, tending cattle, and keeping bees.