Editing Virgil (section)

==== Burial and tomb ====
[[File:Parco della Grotta di Posillipo3.jpg|alt=Tomb of Virgil in Naples, Italy|thumb|upright=1.3|[[Virgil's tomb|Tomb of Virgil]] in Naples, Italy]]

After his death at [[Brundisium]] according to Donatus,{{sfn|Brummer|1912|p=8}} or at [[Taranto]] according to some late manuscripts of Servius,{{sfn|Brummer|1912|p=72}} Virgil's remains were transported to [[Naples]], where his tomb was engraved with an epitaph that he himself composed: ''{{lang|la|Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces}}'';{{sfn|Brummer|1912|p=8}}{{sfn|Brummer|1912|p=72}} "[[Mantua]] gave me life, the [[Salento|Calabrians]] took it away, Naples holds me now; I sang of pastures, farms, and commanders." (transl. [[Bernard Knox]]) [[Martial]] reports that [[Silius Italicus]] annexed the site to his estate (11.48, 11.50), and [[Pliny the Younger]] says that Silius "would visit Virgil's tomb as if it were a temple" (''Epistulae'' 3.7.8).<ref name="Berenbeim_Tomb">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Berenbeim |first=Jessica |title=Virgil, tomb of |encyclopedia=The Virgil Encyclopedia |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2014 |page=1361 |doi=10.1002/9781118351352.wbve2205|isbn=978-1-4051-5498-7 }}</ref>

[[File:Parco della Grotta di Posillipo5 (crop).jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Modern bust of Virgil at the entrance to his crypt in [[Naples]]]]

The structure known as [[Virgil's tomb]] is found at the entrance of an ancient Roman tunnel ({{lang|it|grotta vecchia}}) in [[Piedigrotta]], a district {{cvt|3|km|order=flip}} from the centre of [[Naples]], near the [[Mergellina]] harbour, on the road heading north along the coast to [[Pozzuoli]]. While Virgil was already the object of literary admiration and veneration before his death, in the Middle Ages his name became associated with miraculous powers, and for a couple of centuries his tomb was the destination of [[pilgrimage]]s and veneration.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_K0UJAAAAIAAJ| title=The Book of Days | publisher=W and R Chambers | author=Chambers, Robert | year=1832 | location=London | pages=366}}</ref> Through the nineteenth century, the supposed tomb regularly attracted travellers on the [[Grand Tour]], and it still draws visitors today.<ref name="Berenbeim_Tomb"/>