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Note sulla definizione della possessio nel Festo Farnesiano (Napoli, BNN, IV. A. 3)
2019
The eleventh-century manuscript known as the Codex Farnesianus (now Naples, BNN, IV. A. 3) sole medieval witness of Sextus Pompeius Festus' work De verborum significatione, transmits Aelius Gallus' definition of the legal concept of possession (Fest. pp. 260-262 L.). The interpretation of this definition entirely depends on the reconstruction of the text. Two passages are problematical because of two blank spaces (fol. 11r int., lin. 3 and lin. 4), in connection with which the scribe characterizes the model of the manuscript as 'blind' (caecus). Lindsay's edition of Festus' work does not constitute a codicologically valid starting point of for a reliable reconstruction of the definition. Fu…
Quid meruere nepotes. Responsabilità e merito nella Pharsalia di Lucano
2017
Il contributo indaga l’epos lucaneo ricostruendo i contesti in cui compaiono nel poema meritum e derivati, immagini che coinvolgono tanto la nozione di merito quanto quella di responsabilità. Si tratta di un’oscillazione ben visibile ed operante all’interno dell’opera, dove tali accezioni tornano con frequenza a scandire tanto le azioni dei protagonisti quanto i severi giudizi del narratore. The paper deals with Lucan’s Pharsalia, reconstructing the contexts in which meritum and derivatives appear, images that both involve the notion of merit as that of responsibility. It is a highly visible and active presence within the poem, where such meanings frequently appear, characterizing both the …
Roma, faue coeptis. Pompeo e i Parti nell’ottavo libro della Pharsalia di Lucano
2015
The paper focuses on the section of eighth book of Pharsalia, in which Pompeius discusses with the members of the senate in order to decide the place to find refuge. Particularly, the choice that will bring Pompeius to death in Egypt is determined by the speech of Lentulus: in order to reject proposals for an alliance with the Parthians, he adopts the perspective of the ancient ethnocentrism and his prejudices. Nevertheless, in the architecture of the episode, it is determinant the rhetorical culture of the Author.
Dalla parte dei Decii. Lucano e la storia esemplare di Roma
2021
The paper deals with the references to the exemplary history of the Decii in Lucan’s Pharsalia. Particular attention is focused on the model of virtue and self-sacrifice towards the State they embody. However, while they ennoble the pars Pompeiana, they nevertheless show the fragility of Pompey’s fate, increasing the sense of an imminent catastrophe: the virtuous model of the Decii is in fact not replicable. The subversion produced by civil war makes it now out of date: tragedy, not history