Works

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Creator

MAECENAS

Title

Works

Coverage

AMSTELDAM

Publisher

DIRKONDER DE LINDEN

Date

1764

Subject

Lost in antiquity.

Description

Swans sing before they die – ‘t were no bad thing

Should certain persons die before they sing. - Coleridge.

Maecenas will never be remembered for his poems, but he will have an imperishable home on the side of Mt. Parnassus for being dear Horace’s patron and for giving him the country villa of which Horace would write:

This it was for which I prayed ....

It is good: I ask no more.

Source

Opera