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[David Price]

The Unpublished Legends of Virgil, by Charles Godfrey Leland             62335
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/6/2/3/3/62335 ]
   [Files: 62335-0.txt; 62335-h.htm]




For those wishing to know: Charles Godfrey Leland was a great explorer of 
out of the way knowledge.  In this book he gives a number of tales told to 
him by an Italian witch. As such they are folk-tales, often with some 
occult significance, that either survived in folk memory since the early 
times, or, Dante making Virgil "popular", had been created since.  Leland 
points out: "they embody a vast amount of old Etrusco-Roman minor 
mythology of the kind chronicled by Ovid" and leaves it for the reader to 
decide.

All the best,
David
England with blue skies returning but not that warm