Note 15 — Chapter II · FIRST PERIOD OF HUMANISM
Reading edition
The hymn quoted above in the text refers to a legend of S. Paul having visited the tomb of Virgil at Naples:—
'When to Maro's tomb they brought him Tender grief and pity wrought him To bedew the stone with tears; What a saint I might have crowned thee, Had I only living found thee, Poet first and without peers!'