Amici complici amanti: Eurialo e Niso nelle Interpretationes Vergilianae di Tiberio Claudio Donato

In questa relazione, l’autore mette a confronto due commentari antichi, quello di Servio e quello di Donato sul libro V e IX dell’Eneide. Servio tende a sorvolare su episodi (o anche su singole parole) che potrebbero suggerire un certo grado di licenziosità in Virgilio. Per esempio, evita di soffermarsi sulla natura dell’amor fra Niso e Eurialo nel quinto libro dell’Eneide. Al contrario, Donato dà più spazio allo stesso episodio per spiegare come l’amor tra i due giovani troiani si configuri come un altro aspetto della loro pietas. In più, Donato sostiene che la natura dell’amore che unisce Eurialo e Niso non sia turpis (sensuale) ma casta (castus).In this paper, the author compares two ancient commentaries, those of Servius and Donatus on books V and IX of the Aeneid. Servius tends to pass over episodes (or even single words) that could suggest a certain degree of licentiousness in Vergil. For instance, he avoids dwelling on the nature of the amor between Nisus and Euryalus in the fifth book of the Aeneid. By contrast, Donatus devotes more space to the same episode in order to explain how the amor between the two young Trojans is in fact another facet of their pietas. Furthermore, Donatus claims that the nature of the love that unites Euryalus and Nisus is not turpis (sensual) but chaste (castus)

Per un lessico dei commenti tardoantichi a Virgilio: il caso dello Pseudo Probo

Negli ultimi anni la nostra conoscenza dei commenti tardoantichi a Virgilio si è molto accresciuta. Di conseguenza, oggi abbiamo una visione più articolata di questi testi, sia in riferimento all’ambiente d’origine, sia nella funzione di supporto per la lettura di Virgilio. Mancano invece studi sistematici sul loro lessico, sul vocabolario tecnico al quale fanno ricorso. Alcuni saggi entrano parzialmente nel campo, ma un lavoro complessivo, che tenti di ricostruire il repertorio di parole e di idee con le quali vengono descritti l’autore, la sua funzione, la sua opera, il pubblico di riferimento, ancora non esiste. Partendo dal caso specifico dello Ps. Probo, si propone un contributo a tale indagine.During the last few years our knowledge of the Late Antique commentaries on Virgil has advanced. As a consequence, now we can better interpret them, either as regards their original setting or their function of support for the reading of Virgil. However, a systematic study of their lexicon is still lacking. Only a few essays deal with specific formulas and particular authors; but there are no recent, large-scale studies attempting to reconstruct the repertoire of words and ideas by which the commentaries describe the author, his function, his work, his public… Beginning with the commentary of Ps.Probus, the aim of this paper is to launch such a research

Guerre di genere e tecnica degli interstizi. Ovidio, Petronio, Properzio e altri

In a few cases in which a poet of the Imperial Age (such as Propertius, Ovid or Petronius) retells a Virgilian scene, it is possible to recognize a particular poetic technique. It had not passed unnoticed by earlier scholars, but I propose now to name it ‘the technique of the interstitial formations’. In the cases studied, the new poets seem to look for a sort of gap in the previous narration, an interstice that they filled and developed to the point of making it the centre of the narrative interest in their own version of the scene

Il falso Cidone. "Amitiés particulières" nei commenti tardoantichi a Virgilio

pp. 47-55This paper tries to reconstruct what has been the attitude taken by Virgilian scholiasts, especially in the more numerous commentaries to the Aeneid (the texts of Servius, Servius Danielinus and Tiberius Claudius Donatus), with specific regard to the episodes in which Virgil depicts very close friendships, the verge-point of the passion of love, between persons of male sex. The passages here analyzed are the love of Jupiter and Ganymede (Aen. I 28), of Cycno and Phaeton (Aen. X 185-197), and finally of Cidone and Cytius (Aen. X 324-330)

Il commento dello Ps. Probo al IV libro delle "Georgiche" di Virgilio

pp. 145-176Dall’analisi del commento dello pseudo Probo al IV libro delle Georgiche, il relatore ha messo in evidenzia la natura composita, il valore eterogeneo, l’impropria disposizione di alcune note. Alla ricerca di una possibile definizione del testo, lo studioso ha proposto di considerarlo una sorta di ‘canovaccio’ riunente materiale disparato, forse in attesa di una immissione di un commento più ampio e organico (o di una lettura complementare a tale commento, probabilmente imparentata con la tradizione serviana).Considering how to define the Probus's commentary of IV book of Georgics, a text very heterogeneous in its making, the scholar suggests to consider it as a kind of ‘cadre’ composed with disparate elements, perhaps waiting for to bring in it a larger and more systematic commentary

All'ombra dei grandi libri. La silva Andes di Pietro Marso

Andes Virgilii natale solum, a silua by the Italian humanist Petrus Marsus, was published in Mantua in 1480. The present paper investigates the role of that text as a turning point from Statius’ concept of the silua to the siluae by Politian; it also shows that the siluae were intended by Politian as an introduction to classical texts, exactly in the way of the first printed editions of classical texts, where these texts were accompanied by other poetic compositions, conceived as an introduction to the classical author

Interactions between uptake of amino acids and inorganic nitrogen in wheat plants

Soil-borne amino acids may constitute a source of nitrogen (N) for plants in various terrestrial ecosystems but their importance for total N nutrition is unclear, particularly in nutrient-rich arable soils. One reason for this uncertainty is lack of information on how the absorption of amino acids by plant roots is affected by the simultaneous presence of inorganic N forms. The objective of the present study was to study absorption of glycine (Gly) and glutamine (Gln) by wheat roots and their interactions with nitrate (NO<sub>3</sub><sup>−</sup>) and ammonium (NH<sub>4</sub><sup>+</sup>) during uptake. The underlying hypothesis was that amino acids, when present in nutrient solution together with inorganic N, may lead to down-regulation of the inorganic N uptake, thereby resulting in similar total N uptake rates. Amino acids were enriched with double-labelled <sup>15</sup>N and <sup>13</sup>C, while NO<sub>3</sub><sup>−</sup> and NH<sub>4</sub><sup>+</sup> acquisition was determined by their rate of removal from the nutrient solution surrounding the roots. The uptake rates of NO<sub>3</sub><sup>−</sup> and NH<sub>4</sub><sup>+</sup> did not differ from each other and were generally about twice as high as the uptake rate of organic N when the different N forms were supplied separately in concentrations of 2 mM. Nevertheless, replacement of 50% of the inorganic N with organic N was able to restore the N uptake to the same level as that in the presence of only inorganic N. Co-provision of NO<sub>3</sub><sup>−</sup> did not affect glycine uptake, while the presence of glycine down-regulated NO<sub>3</sub><sup>−</sup> uptake. The ratio between <sup>13</sup>C and <sup>15</sup>N were lower in shoots than in roots and also lower than the theoretical values, reflecting higher C losses via respiratory processes compared to N losses. It is concluded that organic N can constitute a significant N-source for wheat plants and that there is an interaction between the uptake of inorganic and organic N

Adulatio: A Word in the Lexicon of the Empire and its Transformations

The chain that links obsequium, adulatio, and adsensus in the works of Tacitus and some of his predecessors has long been known and has been well studied, as have the individual terms; but the relationship that makes adulatio a double-edged sword, which can promote careers but also subject them to the inevitable blackmail of those who promoted them, seems to have escaped the most up-to-date studies