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Although most sources (including the following), refer to Enieida navyvarat (The Aeneid Inside Out), and Taras na Parnasie (Taras on Parnassus), as being anonymous or unattributed works of literature, recent scholarship has assigned (probable) authorship for them. Please refer to the following pages for further information about them and their authors:
- The Aeneid Inside Out («Энеіды навыварат»): Vikentzi Paulavič Ravinski (Вікенці Паўлавіч Равінскі)
- Taras on Parnassus («Тарас на Парнасе»): Kanstantzin Vasilevič Veranitzin (Канстанцін Васілевіч Вераніцын)
In the early 19th century, two anonymous burlesques circulated widely: A pastiche, Enieida navyvarat (The Aeneid Inside Out), about 1820; and Taras na Parnasie (Taras on Parnassus), about 1840. These publications satirized prominent figures in Russian and Polish literature. In terms of literary quality, they at least match contemporaneous works of known authorship.
Source: Belarusian Literature in the 1950s and 1960s, McMillin (1999), p. 3.