Mantuan (The) that is, Baptista Spagn´olus, surnamed Mantua´nus, from the place of his birth. He wrote poems and eclogues in Latin. His works were translated into English by George Tuberville in 1567. He lived 1443-1516.
Ah, good old Mantuan! I may speak of thee
as the traveller doth of Venice:
Vinegia, Vinegia,
Chi non te vede, ei non te pregia.
Shakespeare, Love’s Labor’s Lost, act iv. sc. 2 (1594).
Mantuan Swan (The), Virgil, a native of Mantua (B. C. 70-19).
Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc
Pathenopè; cecini pascua, rura, duces.
Virgil’s Epitaph (composed by himself).