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In this article I argue that William of Malmesbury was in all likelihood the author of three short bio-biographical notices preserved in a number of twelfth-century manuscripts that also contain the works of Sidonius and/or Symmachus.
La place que tient Orphée dans la mythologie et la religion gréco-romaines est connue depuis fort longtemps. Ce qu'on savait moins jusqu'à une époque récente, c'est que le chantre thrace n'a jamais disparu de la culture occidentale. On le... more
Gottschalk of Orbais (808-867): His influence upon the transmission of Augustinian theology to the future reformers may make him the de facto source of Protestantism. His name meant “God’s Servant” (Ussher, Elrington 124) and he was an... more
This chapter identifies a typically late antique phenomenon: the emergence of a pervasive “poetics of silence”, involving a metaliterary problematization of language and representation. This phenomenon, reminiscent of the postmodern... more
This is an afterword to the French translation of John Block Friedman's book on "Orpheus in the Middle Ages," Harvard, 1999. The format of this PDF does not exactly mirror the printed version. La place que tient Orphée dans la... more
In the first part of this paper, I discuss the autenticity of Fulgentius’ quotations. Following Baldwin and Wolff, I try to show that very often the grammarian is not culpable; instead, I provide some arguments which demonstrate that his... more
Abstract – In 1502 Jakub Locher wrote and then staged in Ingolstadt Iudicium Paridis – a work which is a dramatized vision of the judgment of Paris, complaint with moralizing interpretations of this story by Fulgentius (from Mythologiae)... more
"Voce" bibliografica su Fulgenzio "mitografo" e "grammatico" - assai probabilmente da distinguere dal Fulgenzio vescovo di Ruspe - vissuto nell'Africa vandalica tra la seconda metà del del sec. V e gli inizi del sec. VI.
This contribution concerns gruesome tales of cruelty and the intersection of fact and fiction. The case study is the image of some dangerous mythological women: Lilith, Lamia, Alecto, and the Morrígain. Late-antique and early-medieval... more
The question of the Law as related to nature and grace was one of the main concerns of those who, after Augustine’s death, defended him against the so-called “Semipelagians”, from Cassian to Faustus of Riez. An analysis of the probable... more
Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta testemunhos da tradição manuscrita e impressa e discute sobre o processo de estabelecimento de uma composição poética do prólogo prosimétrico das Mitologias de Fulgêncio, o Mitógrafo, autor latino... more
Nel capitolo VII ("De stella et magis") della sezione "In evangelia" dell'Historia scholastica, Pietro Comestore riporta una curiosa notizia che non trova altro riscontro letterario: Beda avrebbe creduto che la stella dei Magi caduta nel... more
The views of Isidore of Seville on predestination are described based mainly on the thirtieth chapter of the second book of his De diff erentiis verborum and the sixth chapter of the third book of his Sententiae. A comparative analysis... more
En 515, après sept années d’exil en Sardaigne, l’évêque Fulgence de Ruspe est rappelé en Afrique par le roi Thrasamund (496-523) ; comme le mentionne la Vita sancti Fulgentii, notre seule source d’information détaillée sur la vie de... more
In order to understand the Posthomerica, or further, to show how such an understanding could be more appropriate to modern scholarship, it will be useful to set Quintus Smyrnaeus within his temporal context - a context that is not known... more
TRES VERSIONES TARDOANTIGUAS DE VIRGILIO: SERVIO, MACROBIO Y FULGENCIO RESUMEN El presente trabajo realiza un recorrido representativo por la construcción de la figura de Virgilio en la Antigüedad Tardía, tomando como corpus las obras de... more
In questa nota, prendendo spunto da un contributo pubblicato nel 1987 da Francesco Bausi, viene posta attenzione sulla «Canzona sopra il carro delle tre dee» di Jacopo Nardi ispirata al mito del giudizio di Paride. La lettura allegorica... more
Esta é a primeira tradução alipogramática para a língua portuguesa do prólogo da obra De aetatibus mundi et hominis, creditada ao escritor africano Fulgêncio, o Mitógrafo. Inserida no período da Antiguidade Tardia, a De aetatibus se trata... more
RESUMO: Esta é a primeira tradução alipogramática para a língua portuguesa do prólogo da obra De aetatibus mundi et hominis, creditada ao escritor africano Fulgêncio, o Mitógrafo. Inserida no período da Antiguidade Tardia, a De aetatibus... more
The paper deals with an analysis of eight quotations of ancient Greek texts in Fulgentius's work entitled The Exposition of the Content of Virgil According to Moral Philosophy. Fabius Planciades Fulgentius was the first Christian writer... more