Abstract
The De vetula, a pseudo-Ovidian epic in three books, is generally considered anonymous, but it has sometimes been attributed to Richard of Fournival. This article refutes the association of Richard with the poem and instead suggests that Roger Bacon, the first author to mention the De vetula, wrote the poem in the first half of the 1260s as a pious fraud in keeping with his argument in his Opus maius that ancient pagan scholars had predicted the tenets of Christianity.
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