For 10 points, name this Roman poet who wrote an elegy about the death of a pet sparrow and about his love affair with Lesbia.
The second of Carl Orff's three Trionfi cantatas is based on the poetry of this author, in whom Verona rejoices according to the last of Ovid's Amores. In an epyllion by this author about the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, the description of a bedspread leads to a long digression containing the lament of Ariadne on Naxos. Another of his poems is addressed to Asinius Marrucinus, a notorious napkin thief. He described traveling over the sea to pay his respects to his dead brother in a poem which ends "Ave atque vale," and wrote "Odi et amo" at the beginning of a poem to his mistress. For 10 points, name this Roman poet who wrote an elegy about the death of a pet sparrow and about his love affair with Lesbia.
The second of Carl Orff's three Trionfi cantatas is based on the poetry of this author, in whom Verona rejoices according to the last of Ovid's Amores.
Gaius Valerius Catullus