On Virgil’s birthday, October 15, in Mantua, Professor Richard Tarrant will receive the Premio Internazionale Virgilio from the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana. In receiving this accolade he follows in the footsteps of the late Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Wendell Clausen, who was awarded the Premio Virgilio in 1994. This year the prize is being awarded ex aequo to Professor Tarrant and to Werner Suerbaum (Emeritus, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich).