Short answers, pulled from the story.
Virgil, born Publius Vergilius Maro on the 15th of October 70 BC and died on the 21st of September 19 BC, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid.
The Aeneid is an epic of twelve books in dactylic hexameter that follows Aeneas, a warrior and refugee of the Trojan War. After fleeing the sack of Troy he travels to Italy, battles Turnus, and his descendants Romulus and Remus found the city of Rome.
Virgil left the Aeneid unfinished at his death in 19 BC and wished it burned. Augustus overruled this, ordering the literary executors Lucius Varius Rufus and Plotius Tucca to publish it with as few editorial changes as possible.
Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine Gaul, around the 15th of October 70 BC. His tomb stands at the entrance of an ancient Roman tunnel in Piedigrotta, a district three kilometres from the centre of Naples.
From possibly as early as the 2nd century AD, Virgil's works were used for divination through the Sortes Vergilianae, and a confusion of his mother's family name Magius with the Latin magus for magician fed the legend. In medieval Wales his name Fferyllt became a generic term for a magic-worker.
Dante made Virgil his guide through Hell and the greater part of Purgatory in the Divine Comedy. Chaucer placed him on a pillar of bright tin-plated iron in The House of Fame, and T. S. Eliot said any definition of a classic must reckon with Virgil.