The Golden Ass.: Il romanzo di Apuleio nel graphic novel di Milo Manara

For some time, the debt – not merely literary – that Western culture owes to Apuleius’ Golden Ass has been acknowledged. If the Metamorphoses, unlike other classical texts, have enjoyed a certain success in the landscape of the graphic novel, it is also thanks to the free rewriting composed by the Italian cartoonist Milo Manara (1945–). Devoted to erotic production, in 1999 he publishes his version of the novel, where he cuts, stitches together, and reinterprets many sequences of the novel. The contribution reconstructs the editorial history of the work and, by comparing it with its model, investigates its transmedial configuration through the analysis of structures, images, and language.For some time, the debt – not merely literary – that Western culture owes to Apuleius’ Golden Ass has been acknowledged. If the Metamorphoses, unlike other classical texts, have enjoyed a certain success in the landscape of the graphic novel, it is also thanks to the free rewriting composed by the Italian cartoonist Milo Manara (1945–). Devoted to erotic production, in 1999 he publishes his version of the novel, where he cuts, stitches together, and reinterprets many sequences of the novel. The contribution reconstructs the editorial history of the work and, by comparing it with its model, investigates its transmedial configuration through the analysis of structures, images, and language

I coturni ‘bucati’ di Gitone: libido, furor e tempus lugendi

The aim of this essay is to analyze a capite ad calcem the figure of Giton in the Satyricon by Petronius, unveiling the connection between some features of the ancient Greco-Roman tragedy and the passages where the ephebe is the main character. Beside the thematic and intertextual examination, a clinical psicho-diagnostic interpretation will be exposed: the manifestations of Giton’s furor will be read in the light of the Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) – DSM-5. The purpose of this writing is to highlight how the tragic references used by Petronius have a cultural mediation function in criticizing costumes and mores

L'ago di Carite. Il soprannaturale nel romanzo latino.

Il saggio sviluppa un itinerario di lettura attorno all’argomento del soprannaturale nei tre romanzi latini: il Satyricon di Petronio, le Metamorfosi di Apuleio, l’adespota Storia di Apollonio re di Tiro. Il tema della ricerca è lo studio comparato del fantastico, ossia dei contenuti – relativi agli spazi, ai personaggi e agli oggetti – legati esplicitamente alla sfera del magico; ma anche di tutti quei riferimenti, in gran parte simbolici, la cui facies soprannaturale – il legame con la dimensione del sacro, con l’universo dell’iniziazione, del folklore, della religio e della superstitio – non è immediatamente evidente, e viene piuttosto disvelandosi nello ‘scarto metonimico’: nel simbolo, nell’allegoria, nel riferimento cifrato e interstiziale che affiora attraverso paradigmi indiziari di senso. L’analisi muove dalla lettura diretta dei testi e mira a valorizzare, attraverso i metodi della filologia classica, dell’antropologia del mondo antico, dell’analisi simbolica e narratologica, il rapporto che essi intrattengono con materiali di natura prevalentemente extra o ‘peri-letteraria’: papiri di argomento magico, epigrafi sepolcrali, testi medici, giuridici, paradossografici, e ‘generi di confine’; biografia, periegesi, trattazione mitografica e onirocritica.This study investigates supernatural elements in three Latin novels: Petronius’ Satyricon, Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and the anonymous work of Apollonius of Tyre. The main goal of this research is the comparative study of the theme of the fantastic, not only considering spaces, characters and objects (primarily related to the realm of magic), but also looking at those numerous references that are largely symbolic of the supernatural facies, that is the relationship with the sacred dimension and the universes of initiation, folklore, religion and superstition. This supernatural facies is not immediately evident and, in fact, is revealed within the “metonymical issue”: it can be detected in symbols, allegories, and in hidden and interstitial references that come to the surface from undisclosed and cryptic reflections. This work is based on a close reading of these three Latin texts and, using instruments offered by classical philology, ancient world anthropology, and symbolic and narratological analysis, it seeks to enhance the relationships that exist between these three novels and materials mostly of extra- or peri-literary nature, such as papyruses on magical issues, sepulchral inscriptions, medical, legal and paradoxical texts, and even other hybrid genres (biography, periegesis, and mythographic and oneiro-critical texts)

Il mostro dagli occhi verdi. Studi sulla gelosia nel teatro antico (e moderno)

Was ist Eifersucht? Mit welchen Worten und Bildern kann sie beschrieben werden? Wie manifestiert sie sich und was passiert, wenn die Götter eifersüchtig sind? Wie beeinflusst Eifersucht das Verhalten von Männern und Frauen? Kann man mit einer eifersüchtigen Person solidarisch sein? Die zwölf Kapitel dieses Bandes versuchen, diese Fragen durch das Studium der griechischen und lateinischen Tragödie (Aischylos, Sophokles, Euripides, Seneca) und Komödie (Menander, Plautus) sowie einiger moderner, von der Klassik inspirierter Dramen des 15. und 19. Jh. (Lorenzo il Magnifico, Antonio Somma) zu beantworten.</jats:p

Il mostro dagli occhi verdi. Studi sulla gelosia nel teatro antico (e moderno)

Raccolta di studi sulla rappresentazione della gelosia sulla scena del teatro antico e modern

Oggi sento la mia immobilità come un tormento: Forme dell'adattamento

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