. The story of Verona . born at Verona 84. As all classical students know he owned avilla at Sirmione, where the ruins of an old mansionare pointed out as the abode of the tenderest ofRoman poets nineteen hundred years ago —the poetwho might well be called the Heine of his age. The province of Verona claims Cornelius Nepos asone of her sons, though the actual town in which hewas born has never been satisfactorily Nepos was the contemporary and friend ofCatullus, who addressed some of his poems to him,and together they passed most of their lives in Rome,where Cice
. The story of Verona . born at Verona 84. As all classical students know he owned avilla at Sirmione, where the ruins of an old mansionare pointed out as the abode of the tenderest ofRoman poets nineteen hundred years ago —the poetwho might well be called the Heine of his age. The province of Verona claims Cornelius Nepos asone of her sons, though the actual town in which hewas born has never been satisfactorily Nepos was the contemporary and friend ofCatullus, who addressed some of his poems to him,and together they passed most of their lives in Rome,where Cicero formed one of their circle. ^milius Macer, a well-known poet and philosopher,the friend of Virgil and of Ovid, was also a is a work in verse treating of the virtues ofherbs and of the qualities and instincts of reptiles andbirds, by one Macer, but opinions are divided as towhether the author hailed from Verona or was anotherwriter of the same name. During the Augustan age in which the above named124. PALAZZO DEL CONSIGUO. ARCIIITKCT UkA IJlAtONUO »^i Men of Letters—School oj Painting authors lived, Verona also claimed among her citizensthe celebrated architect Vitruvius Cerdone ; a claimnot always, nor very generally, recognised. His statuehowever stands among those of her greatest men out-side the Palazzo del Consiglio, and perpetuates thefame of the man who designed the once glorious Arcode Gavi, that arch which formed one of Veronasgreatest monuments up till 1805, when it was wantonlytaken down. Other writers who were natives ofVerona, or of the surrounding province, were Pom-ponius Secundus (a writer of tragedies, and who, inhis capacity of Veronese consul at Rome, gave a greatsupper to the Emperor Titus, when according to Plinywho was one of the guests, some wine one hundred andsixty years old was drunk) ; Cassius or Catius Severus ;Pliny the Elder, the famous naturalist whose misplacedzeal led him to meet with his death by too close andtoo curious a
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