Virgile travesti
French poem by Paul Scarron (1648)
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Virgile travesti is a parody of the Aeneid written by Paul Scarron in 1648. It was inspired by Giovanni Battista Lalli's L'Eneide travestita (The Aeneid Disguised, 1633).[1] It is an early example of French burlesque literature.[2] Produced in eight volumes, the last book in the work was not published until 1659.[3]
The title gave rise to the English term for the literary genre of travesty.[4][5]
