Faltonia Betitia Proba

Faltonia Proba teaching the history of the world since the Creation through her ''Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi''. Miniature from a 15th-century manuscript of the ''[[De mulieribus claris Faltonia Betitia Proba (c. AD 306/315 – c. 353/366) was a Latin Roman Christian poet, perhaps the earliest female Christian poet whose work survives. A member of one of the most influential aristocratic families, she composed the ''Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi'', a cento composed with verses by Virgil re-ordered to form an epic poem centred on the life of Jesus. Provided by Wikipedia
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