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In partenza verso il majhul. Italiani ed egiziani in fuga per Alessandria d'Egitto
2019
This article analyzes two novels set in Alexandria. The first one is "Cortile a Cleopatra" by the Italian writer Fausta Cialente. The second one is "Nobody sleeps in Alexandria" (Lâ ahad yanâm fî'l-Iskandariyya) by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid. The analysis focus on actions that characterize the genre of travel literature in which the traveler is expected to perform two actions: leaving then returning. If the traveler does not come back to the starting point, his experience is not considered as "travel", rather as "change of residence". But it does not always work out that way. In the two novels, the protagonists leave with intentions of ever coming back. At the same time, their departure includes …
La mala fortuna de Cleopatra en la batalla de Accio
2010
En este artículo se hace un estudio, desde el punto de vista de la Emblemática, del significado del lienzo del pintor Lorenzo A. Castro La Batalla de Accio, 2 de septiembre de 31 a. de J. C., del Museo Marítimo Nacional de Greenwich, a la luz de la alegoría de la Fortuna, basada en la pictura de un emblema de Alciato y representada en el mascarón de proa de la galeota de Cleopatra que huye del combate, un episodio considerado como punto de inflexión en la suerte de la célebre reina de Egipto. This article is a study, from the viewpoint of Emblematics, of the meaning of the painting by Lorenzo A. Castro The Battle of Actium, 2nd September 31 B.C., in the collection of the National Maritime M…
Tacitus on Titus? Visit to the Temple of Venus at Paphos
2020
This article deals with Titus? visit to the temple of Venus at Paphos in the second book of Tacitus? Historiae. I argue that apart from its other literary intentions already mentioned by scholars, this digression implicitly connects Titus not only with Aeneas but also with Julius Caesar. Titus? affair with Berenice that recalls Caesar?s affair with Cleopatra, Tacitus? allusions to Lucan?s De Bello Civili where Caesar?s visit to the tomb of Alexander the Great is described, the ?????Motiv and fortuna?s favour that characterise both Roman generals, all contribute to connect Titus with Caesar and allow the reader to view a parallel between the Flavian and the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Furthermor…