“Ioannis” by the North African early Byzantine poet Flavius Cresconius Corippus (or Gorippus, c. 510 – c. 580) is considered the last poetic epic of Antiquity. The poem, written in hexameters, tells the story of the uprising of the Berber tribes against the Byzantines in North Africa in the second half of the 540s, which Corippus witnessed first-hand, and also recounts the earlier events leading up to this conflict. The poem was preserved in Italy in a single manuscript (although at least three were known during the Renaissance), first published in 1820, but is still practically unknown to the Russian reader. The publishing layout of the book is preserved in PDF A4 format.