Autor: Levi Peter Levi

Peter Levi teases a remarkably vivid life from Virgil’s poems, a life-long study of poetry and the few facts that have come down to us through Suetonius. Born in 70 BC, in a small village near Mantua …

"Children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a land." – W.H. Auden Edward Lear – beloved nonsense poet, author of such adored poems as The Owl and the Pussycat, inventor of otherworldl …

Peter Levi teases a remarkably vivid life from Virgil’s poems, a life-long study of poetry and the few facts that have come down to us through Suetonius. Born in 70 BC, in a small village near Mantua …

‚Horace tells us in his poetry almost everything we need to know about his life; it is curiously entangled with the Italian earth, with the history of his times, and an exact moment in that brief ear …