Lavinia, daughter of one king and wife to another, is barely mentioned in Virgil’s Aeneid, where she is just a wisp of a girl, ripe for marriage and little else. But then in the final hours of his life, Virgil finds himself with Lavinia in the sacred woods of Albunea, and discovers she has a voice and desires all her own. Lavinia is surprised to discover that she has been breathed into life by a poet, but the clues he tells of her life are enough for her to begin to weave her own story, one that is infinitely richer than any he might have seen. As Virgil leaves her life untold and unfinished, it becomes no one’s life but her own.