The Vatican Vergil: Selected Folios

 
f. 9r: Orpheus enters the underworld, while Eurydice waits. (Georg. 4.467-84)
f. 13r Aeneas and Achates find Carthage under construction. (Aen. 1.418-29)
f. 22r Creusa restrains Aeneas as flames appear above the head of Ascanius, and Anchises recognizes the omen (Aen. 2.673-91).
f. 31v Aeneas sails around Sicily and lands at Drepanum (Aen. 3.692-708)
f. 39 v Dido in her watchtower sees Aeneas sail away (Aen. 4.586-91)
f. 40 r (Dido on her funeral pyre speaks her final soliloquy (Aen. 4.645-50)
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f. 52r Aeneas plants the golden branch at the entrance to the Elysian Fields (Aen. 6.635-55)