 In the fifteenth century, a tomb discovered at Rome was identified as Tullia’s burial place.Reports of the discovery claimed that the corpse inside looked and felt like it had been buried that very day, and a lamp that the discoverers supposed to have been burning perpetually since Tullia's burial, more than fifteen hundred years earlier.The seventeenth century English poet John Donne alludes to this legend in the eleventh stanza ("The Good-Night") of his "Epithalamion, 1613.