Author: VERGILIUS. ROSS. A.
Title: Virgilii evangelisantis christiados libri XIII. In quibus omnia quae de Domino nostro Jesu Christo in utroque Testamento, vel dicta, vel praedicta sunt, altisone divina Maronis tubâ suavissimè decantantur. Instante Alexandro Rosaeo.
Description: Rotterdam, A. Leers, 1653. 12mo. [12, 3x6, 8cm). [xxiv], 439 pp. With engr. frontispiece. 19th-century boards. (cropped a bit tightly; some pages a bit waterstained) * ¶ This cento of the life of Christ is collected entirely from Vergil. William Lauder accused John Milton of plagiarising from this book in Paradise Lost. (The Sources of Paradise Lost, in:The Stylus, 22;4.1 (1909), p.137-38; J. Granger, A Biographical History of England p.323)

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