most embarrassingly, I was talking to @horsearchivist and the topic of the goths being converted by the magic of italy came up, and I said "oh yes, what a topic of history and literature! Borges had a short story on it even, Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" — meanwhile egg on my face, Traitor and Hero is part of borges' irish trilogy; of course what I meant was Story of the Warrior and Captive!