Horace Keats echoed the opening of Horace's "Epodes" 14 in the opening lines of "Ode to a Nightingale". The Roman poet was presented in the nineteenth century as an honorary English gentleman. William Thackeray produced a version of "Odes" in which Horace's questionable 'boy' became 'Lucy', and Gerard Manley Hopkins translated the boy innocently as 'child'. Horace was translated by Sir Theodore Martin (biographer of Prince Albert) but minus some ungentlemanly verses, such as the erotic "Odes" and "Epodes" 8 and 12. Lord Lytton produced a popular translation and William Gladstone also wrote translations during his last days as Prime Minister.
Carmen Novoa Uruguay featured Carmen in 2 full inside pages in color regarding her poetry book Evasion/Evasion and her paintings. In 2005 Carmen held and art exhibition in the Uruguayan national library there she also launched her book Evasion/Evasion. With the sponsorship of Uruguayan born Telmo Languiller, speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Carmen brought together 24 artists and coordinated a Latin art exhibition in Parliament House, Melbourne building. This was historically recorded as it was the first art exhibition held in Parliament house then again in 2004. In 2003, Novoa organised the Spanish and Latin American exhibition of painting, sculpture and