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The Death of Virgil
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1945
- Originally in
- Originally in German
- Pages
- Pages 480
A dying Roman poet is carried home from Greece for his final night, and spends it in fevered argument with himself and with the emperor over whether to burn his unfinished epic because he believes his art has failed the truth.
Steel-blue and light, ruffled by a soft, scarcely perceptible cross-wind, the waves of the Adriatic streamed against the imperial squadron
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