How to pronounce“vergil”in English

Somebody confused Cortona with Cratona, the Latin name for the City of Crotone in southern Italy.' 'In classical literature these little errors are everything. For example, the originalname of the author The Aeneid was Vergil, that's spelled v-e, but then in the Middle Ages when he was believed to be a magician of some kind, it became Virgil, v-i. You cantell a Brit from an American by his spelling. For instance, the Brit spells it v-e, while the American spells it v-i.