Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Virgil across 3 places, from 55 BC to 19 BC.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Publius Vergilius Maro (15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Virgil is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Virgil was documented, and when
55 BCyear
Cremonaattested“Virgil spent his boyhood in Cremona until his 15th year (55 BC), when he is said to have received the toga virilis on the very day Lucretius died.”source: Wikipedia: Virgil
21 September 19 BCexact date
Italy (Roman Empire)attested“After crossing to Italy by ship, weakened with disease, Virgil died in Apulia on 21 September 19 BC.”source: Wikipedia: Virgil
21 September 19 BCexact date
Apuliaattested“After crossing to Italy by ship, weakened with disease, Virgil died in Apulia on 21 September 19 BC.”source: Wikipedia: Virgil
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15 October 70 BCexact date
Cisalpine Gaulmentioned“According to the ancient , Publius Vergilius Maro was born on the Ides of October during the consulship of Pompey and Crassus (15 October 70 BC) in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine Gaul (northern Italy, added to Italy prope…”source: Wikipedia: Virgil
15 October 70 BCexact date
Italy (Roman Empire)mentioned“According to the ancient , Publius Vergilius Maro was born on the Ides of October during the consulship of Pompey and Crassus (15 October 70 BC) in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine Gaul (northern Italy, added to Italy prope…”source: Wikipedia: Virgil
15 October 70 BCexact date
Mantuamentioned“According to the ancient , Publius Vergilius Maro was born on the Ides of October during the consulship of Pompey and Crassus (15 October 70 BC) in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine Gaul (northern Italy, added to Italy prope…”source: Wikipedia: Virgil
42 BCyear
Mantuamentioned“After defeating the army led by the assassins of Julius Caesar in the Battle of Philippi (42 BC), Octavian tried to pay off his veterans with land expropriated from towns in northern Italy, which—according to tradition—included an estate…”source: Wikipedia: Virgil
42 BCyear
Battle of Philippimentioned“After defeating the army led by the assassins of Julius Caesar in the Battle of Philippi (42 BC), Octavian tried to pay off his veterans with land expropriated from towns in northern Italy, which—according to tradition—included an estate…”source: Wikipedia: Virgil
19 BCyear
Greecementioned“According to the tradition, Virgil travelled to the senatorial province of Achaea in Greece, in about 19 BC, to revise the Aeneid.”source: Wikipedia: Virgil
1507year
Mantuamentioned“Rand defended the traditional site at Pietole, noting that Egnazio's 1507 edition of Probus's commentary, supposedly based on a "very ancient codex" from Bobbio Abbey which can no longer be found, says that Andes was three miles from Man…”source: Wikipedia: Virgil
1507year
Pietolementioned“Rand defended the traditional site at Pietole, noting that Egnazio's 1507 edition of Probus's commentary, supposedly based on a "very ancient codex" from Bobbio Abbey which can no longer be found, says that Andes was three miles from Man…”source: Wikipedia: Virgil
1507year
Bobbio Abbeymentioned“Rand defended the traditional site at Pietole, noting that Egnazio's 1507 edition of Probus's commentary, supposedly based on a "very ancient codex" from Bobbio Abbey which can no longer be found, says that Andes was three miles from Man…”source: Wikipedia: Virgil
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explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
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