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Lucrezio e Carlo Magno. A proposito dell’epistola di Dungal sulle eclissi (MGH Epistolae IV Karolini aevi II, pp. 570-578)
2021
It is generally assumed that Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura disappeared with the end of antiquity and did not reappear until Poggio Bracciolini’s rediscovery (1417). Yet, the oldest and most valuable manuscripts of DRN were copied in the Carolingian age and reflect a high degree of attention to Lucretius’ text and its content. In the present paper, I argue that by studying more carefully the origin and diffusion of Lucretian manuscripts in Carolingian Europe, it is possible to detect an almost unrecognized connection between textual tradition, grammatical erudition, and literary imitatio. In the first section, I offer an overview of the reception of DRN in such representative ninth-century writ…
Il racconto di Procri e l’ombra di Lucrezia. Ov. met. 7, 700-865 e fast. 2, 721-856
2021
Procris and Lucretia. Ov. met. 7, 700-865 and fast. 2, 721-856 · When Ovid decides to re-write the Greek tale of Cephalus and Procris in the Metamorphoses, he is faced with a “literary vacuum”: he cannot count on any Latin model with which to measure himself, except for a brief quotation in the Aeneid of Virgil (6, 445) – and his own version of Procris in Ars amatoria. In light of this, his only option is to refer to the Greek sources of the myth or to other female archetypes (such as Dido). I argue that, among them, the poet focuses on a female iconic figure of the Ro-man tradition: Lucretia, who is particularly suited to embodying the ethic patterns of pudicitia, fides and castitas, that …