In
the centuries following his death, the author of the Aeneid was transformed by
the public’s imagination, learned and working-class, into the “maestro and
magician” who protected Naples and the Phlegraean area, his chosen country.
Therefore, the tomb becomes a “place of
worship” not only for the “veneration of the literature” that
surrounds Virgil’s works but also for the beliefs of the naive working-classes.
Virgil’s Tomb – The Outside- M. Pfenninger / M.V. Brandoin – XV111 century