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Music and Medicine
2020
The relationship between music and medicine involves the notions of affinity between the human body and musical structures, relief, catharsis and therapy. The Homeric poems attest to the use of healing songs (paeans) and spells (epaoidai). The early Pythagoreans used musical catharsis for both the soul and the body. The doctrine of musical ēthos (whose main source is Plato) presupposes a relationship between music and character based on mimēsis, also establishing a link between therapy and ēthos. According to Aristotle, melodies performed in the rites are able to arou-se the emotions and purify from their excesses (the same dynamics appear in Theophrastus). The musical notions first detecta…
Sulle tracce di Ovidio epico? Contese tra padri e figli in Ps. Quint. decl. 258
2018
In the Minor Declamation 258 it is possible to notice some echoes of the Armorum iudicium of Ov. met. xiii 1-383, an episode whose success in Greece and Rome dates back to the Cyclic poems. Porcius Latro, the famous rhetorician and teacher of Ovid, chose this subject for one of his declamations and provided his pupil with a model: in fact, as showed by Sen. contr. ii 2, 8, the poet borrowed from the rhetor some literal expressions. We can also remember Sen. contr. x and Calp. decl. 21, two of the most important texts where the motifs of family disputes and reward for viri fortes are re-elaborated, in different ages. Therefore, the Minor declamation 258 is one of these interesting adaptation…
Le declamazioni minori attribuite a Quintiliano I (244-292)
2019
The volume includes a textual revision, the first Italian translation and a commentary on the Minor Declamations 244-292 ascribed to Quintilian. The commentary, non only addresses the many critical issues posed by a particularly complex text, but also exploits the results of the strand studies on declamation that has been flourished in the last 20 years involving rhetorical as well as literary and anthropological perspective. The introductory essay by Lucia Pasetti (coordinator of the PRIN project supporting the research) focuses on the issues of textual typology and relationship with literary and juridical tradition and addresses the thorny question of Quintilian authorship. Il volume cont…
Le Declamazioni Minori dello Pseudo-Quintiliano. Discorsi immaginari tra letteratura e diritto
2016
Dedicated to the Minor Declamations ascribed to Quintilian, this volume explores different aspects of this ancient school book: a manual introducing the reader to the daily work of a master rhetorician, as well as an instrument to explore ancient imagery and the close relationship connecting rhetoric, literature and law
Ps. Quint. decl. min. 277: testo, traduzione e commento
2019
Testo rivisto, traduzione, commento di Ps. Quint. declamatio minor 277
Venerari Contendere Adicere: Roman Emulation, Intergenerational Reciprocity, and the Ancient Idea of Progress
2019
Over the past few decades, the successful emergence of intertextuality, with its careful investigation of the dynamics of imitation, allusion, and emulation, has effectively challenged the Romantic notions of creativity and individual authorship. In the wide-open field left by the postmodern ‘death of the author’, however, the territory of culture as a network of patterns hiding behind the text has often been restricted within the boundaries of literary culture. In this paper, I will attempt to enlarge such a text-centred perspective by highlighting the often neglected connections between family education, intergenerational reciprocity, and aesthetic thought in Roman culture. Indeed, long b…
Ps. Quint. 278: testo, traduzione, commento
2019
Testo critico rivisto, traduzione e commento di Ps. Quintiliano declamatio minor 278
Ps. Quintiliano decl. min. 287, testo, traduzione e commento
2019
Testo critico rivisto, traduzione e commento di Ps. Quintiliano declamatio minor 278
Ps. Quint. decl. min. 266 testo, traduzione e commento
2019
Testo rivisto criticamente, prima traduzione in lingua italiana e commento di Ps. Quint. decl. min. 266
Catarsi ed Ethos. La musica tra formazione del carattere e cura dei mali nella Grecia antica
2022
Nella Grecia antica la musica è presenza costante e riguarda tutti gli aspetti del sapere. L’idea di un influsso esercitato sull’uomo, e persino sulla sua salute, trova espressione nella nozione di catarsi e nella dottrina dell’ethos, secondo cui la musica esplica un’azione psicagogica in base alle harmoníai («scale musicali») seguite dalle composizioni, e agli strumenti usati. A partire dai riti, la catarsi entra nella riflessione di Platone e di Aristotele. Nel De musica di Aristide Quintiliano, l’analisi della capacità della musica di influire sull’anima si affianca alla speculazione sulle harmoníai e apre la strada alla comprensione del suo influsso sull’indagine medica, definendo nel c…