naudeus

Updated: May 13, 2025

The age which turned Hercules into a knight-errant, very consistently represented the poet and philosopher as a magician. All through the Middle Ages the name of Virgil had been connected with necromancy. "The authors," says Naudeus, "who have made mention of the magic of Virgil are so many that they cannot be examined one after another, without loss of much time."

Bayard Tuckerman - A History of English Prose Fiction