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Quo plura possis, plura patienter feras. Agamennone modello di sapienza nelle Troiane di Seneca
2022
The paper deals with the quarrel between Pyrrhus and Agamemnon in the Troades, with an analysis of Greek and Latin antecedents, focusing in particular on the characterisation of the Achaean commander. The character of Agamemnon, who embodies the suffering of the defeated, shows a new model of royalty in line with Senecan ideology.
Un augurio di invecchiare: Sen. Phaedr. 820-823
2019
The paper aims to offer an interpretation of Senecan Phaedra 821-823. In them, the wish to grow old addressed to Hippolytus should be interpreted on the one hand through the poetic tradition (Augustean in particular), on the other as a warning that the chorus directs to the prince no less guilty than Phaedra.
Il dono e i poveri: la trattazione de beneficiis nel de officiis ministrorum di Ambrogio.
2011
Suggestioni senecane nella «Vita di Bartolomeo Colleoni» di Antonio Cornazzano
2009
Lettura di un coro dell’«Ecerinis» di Albertino Mussato (vv. 113-162) fra Seneca, Guizzardo e Castellano
2022
L’intervento si propone di analizzare, come "specimen" privilegiato, il primo coro dell’«Ecerinis» di Albertino Mussato (vv. 113-162, inc. «Quis vos exagitat furor»), alla luce, soprattutto, delle suggestioni senecane (ma anche attinte a Boezio e ad altri "auctores" classici e medievali) che lo innervano. Insieme, si cerca di contestualizzare la funzione e il ruolo che questo coro ricopre all’interno della tragedia mussatiana. La lettura e l’analisi del brano corale vengono, poi, supportate dal correlativo confronto col commento di Guizzardo da Bologna e Castellano da Bassano, anche allo scopo di mettere nel dovuto risalto i modi e le tecniche di spiegazione e di interpretazione esperite da…
Dimenticare(?): come finisce una guerra civile. Un tema retorico e politico tra antico e moderno
2020
Il contributo ripercorre il motivo della necessità di dimenticare come possibilità di superamento di un conflitto civile, attraverso una selezione di testi che a partire dalle testimonianze antiche approda alla riflessione dei moderni. In questa prospettiva particolare attenzione è dedicata alla controversia di Seneca il Vecchio 10, 3 The contribution traces the reason for the need to forget as a possibility of overcoming a civil conflict, through a selection of texts that starting from ancient testimonies leads to the reflection of moderns. In this perspective, particular attention is dedicated to the controversy of Seneca the Elder 10, 3
Seneca on the Mother Cow: Poetic Models and Natural Philosophy in the Consolation to Marcia
2020
Seneca’s Consolation to Marcia embraces the orthodox Stoic view that, when unduly protracted, grief reflects a logical misunderstanding of the natural world, human life, and the limits of the self. Seneca is aware that persuading Marcia to leave her false beliefs is the only way to reawaken her interest in communal life, family reciprocity, and constructive memory. He conceives his consolatory writing as an intellectually engaging didactic work tailored to the needs and disposition of his addressee. The main purpose of the present paper is to show that in this and several other respects the Consolation to Marcia makes a conscious move towards the different but evidently related genre of did…
'Ignosce, non possum'. Modelli declamatori e topoi tragici a confronto: padri e figli tra declamazione e tragedia
2013
This paper deals with the links between Latin declamation and tragedy through the investigation of some controversiae, focusing on the relationship father-son. The comparison between some declamatories passages (Sen. contr. 1, 4 and Calp. exc. 18) and some Senecan tragic verses (from Thyestes and Phaedra) allows to detect the proximity between the rhetoric practiced in the schools of declamation and Senecan tragic theatre.
Seneca on the Nature of Things: Moral Concerns and Theories of Matter in Natural Questions 6
2017
It is generally recognized that Lucretius' treatment of earthquakes and pestilences (6.535-607; 1090-1286) exerted great influence on Book 6 of Seneca's Natural Questions. But while a large consensus exists that both authors tend to emphasize the moral value of scientific knowledge, further research is needed with respect to Seneca's “technical” re-use of Epicurean physics and meteorology. In the present paper, I shall address this issue in three stages. First, I will analyze the structure and intellectual goals of Seneca's “doxographic” review of seismological theories (6.5-20). Far from being a doxographic account sensu proprio, such a careful review constructs the inspiring image of an i…