Virgil Suspended in a Basket, copy, 1541/1600. According to medieval legend, the Roman poet Virgil fell in love with the emperor's daughter. One night she promised to raise him to her bedroom in a basket but left him dangling halfway to be mocked by passersby the following day.

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