 When Silius Italicus epic poem "Punica", also about the Second Punic War, was discovered in the fifteenth century it overshadowed Petrarch's medieval style "Africa" because the audience then loved classical works like Italicus'.Various editions of Petrarch's "Opera Omnia" (collected Latin works) from 1501 onward were little acknowledged or read.Leon Pingaud produced the first serious scholarly edition in Paris in 1872 and even it was done with little thought.