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OVIDIO.
--- Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B. C. -- 17 A. D.).
One of the most prolific Roman poets.
In the capital city, he associated with powerful social and government circles.
Most of his life was devoted to his poetic compositions.
Later in life, he was banished, traditionally, on account of a poem unpleasing to the Emperor Augustus.
The place of exile was Tomis, a frontier outpost on the Euxine Sea: now Constanza.
Among other works, Ovidio composed the "Amores", a series of love poems, the "Ars Amatoria", and the "Remedium Amoris".
In the "Ars Amatorio", Ovidio, as a professor of love, expounds on love as a commercial science of great service in the demi-monde.
Books 1 and 2 are addressed to men; Book 3 is addressed to women.
The "Remedia Amoris" is a kind of apologetic sequel to the "Ars Amatorio".