The Unpublished Legends of Virgil
Medieval Tales of the Roman Poet as Magician, Prophet, Trickster, and Wonder-WorkerBy Charles Godfrey Leland
Length6h 39m
About this audiobook
The Unpublished Legends of Virgil presents the Roman poet not simply as the author of the Aeneid, but as a mysterious magician, prophet, and culture hero preserved in medieval and popular imagination. Drawing upon European folklore, local anecdote, and the long afterlife of Virgilian tradition, the book explores episodes in which poetry, occult knowledge, and supernatural power converge. Leland's prose combines antiquarian commentary with the vivid directness of oral narrative: tales are retold as literary curiosities while retaining the strangeness and humor of folk belief. The work thus belongs both to nineteenth-century folkloristics and to the broader Romantic and antiquarian fascination with legendary transformations of classical figures. Charles Godfrey Leland was an American writer, humorist, translator, and pioneering collector of European popular traditions. His extensive travels and friendships with storytellers, artists, and local informants encouraged him to regard folklore as an independent record of cultural memory rather than as mere superstition. His interest in magic, vernacular religion, and the persistence of pre-Christian motifs shaped his approach to Virgil, whose medieval reputation as a sorcerer offered an especially revealing meeting point between classical literature and folk tradition. This volume will reward readers interested in Virgil's reception, medieval legend, comparative folklore, and the history of occult ideas. It is equally valuable to students of nineteenth-century antiquarian writing, showing how scholarship can preserve imaginative traditions that formal literary histories often overlook. Readers should approach it as both a collection of enchanting narratives and a document of the period's evolving understanding of myth, popular belief, and cultural continuity.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length6 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 9, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Homer: The Complete Works (The Giants of Literature - Book 16) (Annotated)
2HOW VIRGIL WAS BORN.
3VIRGIL, THE EMPEROR, AND THE TWO DOVES.
4VIRGILIO AND THE ROCK.
5VIRGIL, THE EMPEROR, AND THE TRUFFLES.
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6BALSÀBO.
7VIRGIL, MINUZZOLO, AND THE SIREN.
8LAVERNA.
9VIRGIL AND THE UGLY GIRL.
10VIRGIL AND THE GEM.
11THE FLIES IN ROME.
12THE COLUMNS OF VIRGIL AND HIS THREE WONDERFUL STATUES.
13VIRGIL AND ADELONE.
14VIRGIL AND DORIONE, or THE MAGIC VASE.
15VIRGIL AND THE LADY OF ICE AND WATER. [63]
16VIRGIL THE MAGICIAN, OR THE FOUR VENUSES.
17VIRGIL, THE LADY, AND THE CHAIR.
18VIRGIL AND THE GODDESS OF THE CHASE.
19VIRGIL AND THE SPIRIT OF MIRTH.
20NERO AND SENECA.
21VIRGIL AND CICERO.
22VIRGIL AND THE GODDESS VESTA.
23THE STONE FISH, AND HOW VIRGIL MADE IT EATABLE.
24VIRGILIO AND THE BRONZE HORSE.
25VIRGILIO AND THE BALL-PLAYER.
26VIRGIL AND THE GENTLEMAN WHO BRAYED.
27VIRGIL AND THE GIRL WITH GOLDEN LOCKS.
28VIRGIL AND THE PEASANT OF AREZZO.
29THE GIRL AND THE FLAGEOLET.
30LA BEGHINA DI AREZZO, OR VIRGIL AND THE SORCERESS.
31THE SPIRIT OF THE SNOW OF COLLE ALTO. [134]
32THE LEGEND OF LA MADONNA DELLA NEVE.
33THE MAGICIAN VIRGIL; A LEGEND FROM THE SABINE.
34VIRGIL, THE WICKED PRINCESS, AND THE IRON MAN.
35GIOVANNI DI BOLOGNA AND THE GOD MERCURY.
36THE DOUBLE-FACED STATUE, OR HOW VIRGILIO CONJURED JANUS.
37VIRGIL AND HIS COURTIERS.
38VIRGIL AND THE THREE SHEPHERDS. A Legend of the Monte Sybilla, near Rome.
39THE GOLDEN PINE-CONE.
40VIRGIL’S MAGIC LOOM.
41VIRGIL AND THE PRIEST.
42IL GIGLIO DI FIRENZE, OR THE STORY OF VIRGIL AND THE LILIES.
43VIRGIL AND THE BEAUTIFUL LADY OF THE LILY.
44VIRGIL AND THE DAUGHTER OF THE EMPEROR OF ROME.
45VIRGIL AND POLLIONE, OR THE SPIRIT OF THE PROVERB.
46VIRGIL AND MATTEO, OR ANOTHER PROVERB OF VIRGILIO.
47VIRGILIO AND THE FATHER OF TWELVE CHILDREN. A Legend from Colle di Val d’Elsa, Tuscany.
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