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Books about Virgil:

• Aelii Donati Commenti Vergiliani: Reliquiae Praeter Vitam, Praefationem, Prooemium (dissertation in Latin; Greifswald: H. Adler, 1910), by Aelius Donatus and Julius Ender (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient Lives of Vergil, with an Essay on the Poems of Vergil in Connection with His Life and Times (Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1879), by Henry Nettleship (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Virgil, by Aelius Donatus, trans. by David Scott Wilson-Okamura (HTML with commentary at virgil.org)
• Vergil: A Biography, by Tenney Frank (Gutenberg text)
• Great Writers: Cervantes, Scott, Milton, Virgil, Montaigne, Shakspere (New York: McClure Co., 1907), by George Edward Woodberry
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Fulgentius the Mythographer (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, ed. by Leslie George Whitbread
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Ohio State Press

• Christophori Landini Florentini Libri Quattuor: Primus de Vita Activa et Contemplativa; Secundus de Summo Bono; Tertius et Quartus in Publij Virgilij Maronis Allegorias (4 books in Latin (book 1 also known as Disputationes Camaldulenses), bound in a larger set of early printed books; 1508), by Cristoforo Landino (page images in Germany)

• Vergil in the Middle Ages (London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1895), by Domenico Comparetti, trans. by E. F. M. Benecke, contrib. by Robinson Ellis (page images at Google)

• The Roman Self in Late Antiquity: Prudentius and the Poetics of the Soul (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008), by Marc Mastrangelo (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Virgil and the Tempest: The Politics of Imitation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Donna B. Hamilton (PDF at Ohio State)

• Les Faictz Merveilleux de Virgille: Reimpression Textuello de l'Édition Sans Date, Publiée à Paris, Chez Guillaume Nyverd (in French; Geneva: J. Gay et fils, 1867), ed. by Gustave Brunet
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Wonderful History of Virgilius the Sorcerer of Rome, Englished for the First Time (Mediaeval Legends #2; London: D. Nutt, 1893) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Atti e Memorie (Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana; in Italian) (full serial archives)

• Virgil's Epic Technique (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Richard Heinze, trans. by Hazel Mary Harvey, David Harvey, and Fred Robertson, contrib. by Antonie Wlosok (HTML at UC Press)

• The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Aneis (third edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed by J. Tonson, 1709), by Virgil, trans. by John Dryden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fama and Fiction in Vergil's Aeneid (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Antonia Jane Reobone Syson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Virgil's Epic Technique (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Richard Heinze, trans. by Hazel Mary Harvey, David Harvey, and Fred Robertson, contrib. by Antonie Wlosok (HTML at UC Press)
• Dante's Epic Journeys (originally published 1974; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by David Thompson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Characters and Epithets: A Study in Virgil's Aeneid (1926), by Nicholas Moseley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Metaphorische Kunst Vergils in der Aeneis (in German; Graudenz: G. Röthe, 1894), by Alfred Preuss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Sage von den Wanderungen des Aeneas bei Dionysios von Halikarnasos und Vergilius (in German; Leipzig: A. Edelmann, 1882), by E. Wörner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Virgil and the Tempest: The Politics of Imitation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Donna B. Hamilton (PDF at Ohio State)
• Virgile et les Origines d'Ostie (in French; Paris: E. de Boccard, 1919), by Jérôme Carcopino (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Virgil, Aeneid 11 (Pallas and Camilla), 1-224, 498-521, 532-96, 648-89, 725-835: Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary (main text in Latin; commentary in English; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018), by Virgil, ed. by Ingo Gildenhard and John Henderson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299: Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays (main text in Latin; commentary in English; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2012), by Virgil, ed. by Ingo Gildenhard
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • multiple formats at Google

Books by Virgil:

• Virgil: The Aeneid, trans. by John Dryden
  • HTML with commentary at Perseus
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • Gutenberg text
• Virgil: The Aeneid, trans. by Theodore C. Williams (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Virgil, contrib.: The Aeneid for Boys and Girls, Told From Virgil in Simple Language (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Alfred John Church (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Virgil: The Eclogues (in English and Latin), trans. by J. W. MacKail (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Virgil: The Eclogues, trans. by James Rhoades (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Virgil: A Eneida de Vergilio, Lida Hoje (Portuguese translation of the Aeneid; Lisbon: Liv. Ferreira, 1908), trans. by Coelho de Carvalho
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Virgil: The Georgics (in English and Latin), trans. by J. W. MacKail (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Virgil: The Georgics, trans. by James Rhoades (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Virgil: La Eneida en la República Argentina (Spanish translation of books 1-6 of the Aeneid; Buenos Aires: F. Lajouane, Editor, 1888), trans. by Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield and Juan Cruz Varela (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virgil, contrib.: Stories From Virgil (London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1879), by Alfred John Church, illust. by Bartolomeo Pinelli (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Virgil: Virgil, Aeneid 11 (Pallas and Camilla), 1-224, 498-521, 532-96, 648-89, 725-835: Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary (main text in Latin; commentary in English; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018), ed. by Ingo Gildenhard and John Henderson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Virgil: Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299: Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays (main text in Latin; commentary in English; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2012), ed. by Ingo Gildenhard
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • multiple formats at Google
• Virgil, contrib.: Virgil's Aeneid: The First Six Books and the Completion of the Story by Selections and Summaries; and Ovid's Metamorphoses: The Sections Required for Entrance to College in the Years 1923-1925 (texts in Latin, commentary in English; Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1923), ed. by J. B. Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge, and Thornton Jenkins, also contrib. by Ovid
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Virgil: The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Aneis (third edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed by J. Tonson, 1709), trans. by John Dryden (page images at HathiTrust)