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Virgil
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...[T]he three greatest works are those of Homer, Dante and Shakespeare.
These are closely followed by the works of Virgil and Milton.
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― How To Speak And Write Correctly
― How To Speak And Write Correctly
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About Justice departing from the shepherds: Justice illustrates a passage from Virgil's Georgics, in which he describes how Astraea, the goddess of Justice, who used to live among mortals during the Golden Age, took refuge among country people, as times degenerated, and at length fled even from them. Rosa shows the cloud-borne goddess departing from a tumbledown farmstead as she hands her sword and scales to a bemused group of peasants, one of whom awkwardly pulls of his hat in respect.
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― Salvator Rosa: His Life and Times
― Salvator Rosa: His Life and Times
