Late Antique Latin Poetry
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Die Psychomachia des Prudentius stellt das erste vollkommen allegorische Epos des Abendlandes dar. Es ist insbesondere in der Kunst und Literatur des Mittelalters vielfältig rezipiert worden. Magnus Frisch legt nun erstmals einen... more
Inés Warburg. – De Lerina insula: Manuscript tradition, texts and edition (p. 143-153) The poem De Lerina insula, attributed to Dinamius of Marseille († 595 c.), celebrates in elegiac couplets the Christian foundation of Saint Honoratus,... more
This preview of the incomplete rough-draft, serves as an abstract for the time being. The Insular symptoms found in the Gesta have been moved from the end of the paper to the forefront. Pardon any and all errors, it is just a draft.
Il presente volume offre uno dei possibili itinerari di riscoperta della figura di Didone - dalle riscritture tardoantiche degli autori latini di area africana (Apuleio, Draconzio, gli autori della "Anthologia Latina") ad una curiosa... more
The eleven books of poetry by Venantius Fortunatus include well-loved hymns, figure poems, epigrams on miracles, and elegies in the voices of abandoned or exiled women. The sixth-century poet began his career in northern Italy before... more
La Literatura Latina Antigua, nacida en el siglo III a. C., tuvo un rápido desarrollo a partir de una imitación consciente de los modelos griegos. Tras esos primeros pasos, gracias a ese hábil proceso de imitación y emulación, se forjó... more
L'encart (originellement lié aux volumes de thèse) donne une concordance de la numérotation des éditions, la liste des manuscrits, et le stemma général.
This is a lightly edited and footnoted version of a talk given at Brown University at the conference 'Renewing the Classics: Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity' (10/11/11). It examines the imitation and reinvention of late antique Latin... more
La monografia prevede l’edizione critica, la traduzione italiana ed il commento di Drac. Romul. 8. Si tratta di un epillio mitologico di 655 esametri, avente per soggetto il ratto di Elena e redatto da Blossio Emilio Draconzio,... more
Lo studio indaga la continuità e l’innovazione nei modi e nelle forme dei generi letterari dell’Antichità tarda rispetto ai modelli classici. Partendo dall’esame del de bello Gildonico di Claudiano si chiarisce come la ripresa nella... more
This paper is devoted to De excidio Thoringiae, a poem written by Venantius Fortunatus in the voice of queen Radegund, an ex-wife of the king Chlothar I and, at the time of its composition, a nun at the Abbey of the Holy Cross at... more
Il volume offre un compendio ragionato intorno alle principali questioni e agli studi critici relativi alle 'imagines' di Didone, ovvero alle diverse ‘storie’ del personaggio che, nei secoli successivi a Virgilio, sono state variamente... more
Ausonius' Mosella represents a river that is a matrix of multi-species relationalities--spatial, legal, sympathetic, antipathetic, cosmological, economic, and filial. Reading the river as relational unlocks new perspectives on the... more
L’eros nuziale nel Cento e il disagio che gli interpreti provano di fronte alla imminutio (vv. 101-131), la sezione che descrive la prima notte d’amore tra i coniugi come fosse un atto di violenza sessuale. La tecnica centonaria,... more
ENEIDE Book VI selected passages, translation into hendecasyllables and adaptation to Ottavio Costa's reading aloud. The inspiring criteria of the choices made during the translation work, or "lyrical version", were essentially two:... more
This paper examines some epigrams of Ausonius’ Bissula, underscoring the literary dimension in which the biographical relationship between the poet-patronus and his young slave-alumna is rewritten in these verses. The girl is seen as an... more
The object of this study is two-fold: 1) to show that the Liber Cathemerinon of Prudentius Aurelius Clemens is not just a series of unrelated hymns, but a poetic breviarium, or handbook, of fundamental Nicene Christian belief. Behind the... more
After a brief bloom in the Hellenistic period, didactic epigrams remain rather episodic and marginal in the Greek poetry, while in Latin they seem to be even absent until late antiquity. Conversely, in late Latin literature the didactic... more
Résumé. – Venance Fortunat, au début de la Vita Martini, et Isidore de séville, dans le célèbre poème "Si Maro, si Flaccus, si Naso et Persius horret", ont énuméré une série d’écrivains chrétiens qui ont narré en poésie les gesta du... more
Dopo un rapido sguardo all’epistola dedicatoria in prosa all’amico Assio Paolo e ai carmi introduttivi del libellus per Bissula, la schiavetta sveva di Ausonio (Biss. praef., 1 e 2), il presente contributo prende in esame i primi due... more
This chapter examines the reception of Ovid’s erotic and exilic elegies in the Latin literature of late antiquity (fourth to sixth centuries CE). Revising Hermann Fränkel’s thesis of Ovid as a “poet between two worlds,” it draws... more
This note analyzes Ausonius’ Bissula 5 and 6. Three basic interpretative alternatives are discerned and explored: (1) “Bissula cannot be represented,” (2) “Bissula can be represented but only by a poet,” and (3) “Bissula can be... more
Cet article examine le long excursus sur les héros antiques qui sont pris comme exempla scelerum dans les Louanges de Dieu, 3, v. 251-530. Ces exempla, tirés de sources païennes comme Valérius Maxime, ou chrétiennes comme Tertullien,... more
It is common knowledge that Sidonius Apollinaris’ imitative technique is extremely complex. In Poem 6 – the preface to the Panegyric on Avitus – the constant and fundamental Ovid’s influence is coupled with that of a number of writers.... more
Embedded within the transition from life to death, epitaphs reveal aspects about important boundaries in life, and for Roman women in Late Antiquity this boundary was between childhood and womanhood. Early Christianity accepted girls into... more
The prose and poetry of Ennodius show that he is a careful reader of classical authors and in the last years critics have clearly demonstrated this aspect of the culture of the bishop of Pavia. The present study aims to illustrate the... more
In this paper the author presents a study on the poetical inclusion of the biblical matters and themes in Sidonius Apollinaris’ carm. 16 (especially vv. 6-39) and Alcimus Avitus’ de spiritalis historiae gestis, focusing on the same tales... more
I versi 37-43 del carme 189 Sh. B. del codice Salmasiano dell'Anthologia Latina (una ethopoiia relativa al periodo di Sciro del mito di Achlle) rappresentano una sezione coesa che anticipa l'esperienza troiana dell'eroe. Analisi della... more