Commemoration
Vergil was buried in the Duomo (cathedral) of Urbino, in the chapel of St Andrew which he himself had endowed. In 1613, it was agreed that a memorial stone should be set over his tomb. This was eventually put in place in 1631, with an inscription stating that his fame would "live for ever in the world". However, it is believed to have been lost when the cathedral was destroyed by an earthquake in 1789.
Vergil's family home in Urbino (now a property of the University of Urbino) is marked by a plaque; and there is also a bust of him in the city, unveiled in 2000.
Vergil is among the worthies whose portraits were painted in c.1618-19 on the frieze in what is now the Upper Reading Room of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
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