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La questione de patria nell'Apologia di Apuleio
2014
In Apologia 24, Apuleius, as a response to the accusation of being Seminumida and Semigaetulus, deals with the topic de patria. Behind the clichés on the foreigner and the theories of geo-climatic determinism in the ancient world, a very accurate speech comes out. This oratory performance recalibrates the various aspects of the accusation: the intention of the opponents is reversed and the mores of Apuleius and his familiar credibility are emphasized. In fact, his speech is provided with ethnic pride and irony: the subject under discussion is very probably linked to the crimen magiae.
La biografia attraverso un testo classico
2010
La saggezza ‘fertile’: Apuleio, l’India e i gimnosofisti
2022
In Fl. 6 Apuleio propone una riflessione sugli Indi, indicati come popolo agli estremi confini della terra (ultimis terris): la distanza spaziale, marcata con insistenza all’inizio del discorso, consente di tracciare un quadro esotico dell’India e delle meraviglie che essa ospita. Apuleio, però, preferisce intrattenersi de miraculis hominum piuttosto che su quelli della natura, soffermandosi in particolar modo sulla presentazione dei gimnosofisti, la cui saggezza da un lato si rivela sorprendentemente operosa e socialmente impegnata, dall’altro presuppone un consequenziale disprezzo per qualsiasi forma di inerzia dell’animo. Solo chi coltiva la sapienza acquista il diritto di mangiare, ment…
Recensione di: Magic in Apuleius’ >Apologia<, Understanding the charges and the forensic strategies in Apuleius’ speech, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde …
2020
La magia nel mondo antico, con un particolare sguardo ad Apuleio Magic in the ancient world, with a particular look at Apuleius
Omnis voculae melleus modulator (Fl. 4). I Florida e l’eloquenza di Apuleio: Palermo, Università degli Studi, 1-2 dicembre 2021
2022
The detailed report of the conference about the eloquence of Apuleius held at the university of Palermo.
Retorica e spettacolo nell’Apologia di Apuleio
2010
Recensione a BENJAMIN TODD LEE, ELLEN FINKELPEARL, LUCA GRAVERINI (eds.), Apuleius and Africa, New York-London, Routledge 2014, pp. XVI-344
2014
Recensione del volume miscellaneo "Apuleius and Africa", con il quale si è inteso verificare l'influenza dello status di africano sulle opere di Apuleio
Le prove testimoniali nell’Apologia di Apuleio
2015
In Apuleius’ Apologia the witnesses play a relevant role and indeed, in some cases, they are crucial for the defensive speech. This survey explores in detail the universe of the characters and the evidences in the Apuleian oration. Testes are often presented in spectacular form: from Crassus’ comic tones to the scenic personification of verba suppressa from Pudentilla’s letter. In Apuleius’ words, you can also see a strong continuity with the rhetorical treatises and the previous oratorical tradition: undeniably there is a proximity between some choices in the Apologia and similar solutions in Cicero, as well and it is also possible, in particular, to read some sections of the Apuleian text…
Karthago provinciae nostrae magistra venerabilis. Uno sguardo su Cartagine: i Florida di Apuleio
2023
This paper proposes a focus on the city of Carthage through Florida: Apuleius lavishes continuous and extraordinary praise on Carthage and its citizens. It becomes clear how the city, in Apuleius' time, was by then an established and ‘Romanised’ cultural centre. In Apuleius' words, Carthage appears as the only city capable of competing with Rome.
MERCES… SENTICOSA. Immaginari stoici nei Floridia di Apuleio
2020
Merces… senticosa. Stoic images in the Florida of Apuleius · In the Florida Apuleius makes use of images related to the rhetorical-philosophical stoic tradition. In particular, in Fl. 18 Apuleius describes the famous sophism of Protagoras, by using, trought an intellectual virtuosity, the metaphor of thorns, a stylistic device linked with the characterization of the Stoicism.