Hernando de Acuña
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Hernando de Acuña, a native of Valladolid, was a Spanish poet and translator of the Spanish Golden Age. He was admired by Emperor Charles V for both his military and literary talents.
Hernando de Acuña's poems
Ovid
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Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the
Bust from the 2nd century AD, supposed "for no reason" to represent Ovid, Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Statue of Ovid by Ettore Ferrari in the Piazza XX Settembre, Sulmona, Italy. Duplicate of an 1887 original found in Constanța, Romania.
Ovid Banished from Rome (1838), by J.M.W. Turner
Statue of Roman poet Ovid in Constanța. In 1925, an identical replica was made in Sulmona, Italy.