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Desiderio, crudeltà e conversione nell’«Agnes» di Rosvita di Gandersheim
Armando Bisantisubject
holy AgneHrotsvit of Gandersheim; holy Agnes; hagiography; conversion.Settore L-FIL-LET/08 - Letteratura Latina Medievale E UmanisticaHrotsvit of Gandersheimhagiographyconversion.description
In her last hagiographical poem, «Agnes», Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (935-973) elaborates in 459 rhymed hexameters a story already told in many hagiographical an hymnological texts, the story of young roman virgin Agnes (it was told by pope Damasus, Prudentius, Ambrosius, Beda, and the anonymous «Passio Agnetis»). The paper presents and analizes Hrotsvit’s «Agnes» in his literary, historical, hagiographical, religious components and particularly insists on the themes of “desire”, “cruelty”, “conversion” and “martyrdom” which occur in it.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-12-01 |