anguillara's

Updated: January 17, 2026

They had no recourse to the barbarians for poetical beauties, but sought for everything in Homer, where, indeed, there is but little which they might not find. The Italians have been very diligent translators, but I can hear of no version, unless, perhaps, Anguillara's "Ovid" may be excepted, which is read with eagerness.

Samuel Johnson - Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope