Felix Bosselier won the Prix de Rome in 1805 and stayed in the Ville Medici. He painted eight paintings, then mysteriously jumped in the Tiber and drown. One painting, based on the Culex recounts the story of a shepherd sleeping in the goddess Diana's woods, near a spring. When a snake wanted to drink at the spring, a gnat warned the shepherd of the pending danger by biting his eye. Irritated the shepherd crushed the little insect, woke, saw the snake and killed it with his staff. Later, the shepherd had a dream. The gnat appears reproaching the shepherd's ingratitude. Realizing his mistake, the shepherd erects a tomb to his victim.
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the gnat tomb